Spoon | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1720–30

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.1298
Geography: Made in Boston, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Flatware
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York, to 1930; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 255

Barbara M. Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward, eds., Silver in American Life: Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 122–24, no. 120, ill

Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 1, p. 96, no. 111

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

spoons

"JOHN BURT" in two lines, in oval (on back of handle).

"IR" engraved on back of handle.

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