Four Dessert Spoons | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1785–1795

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1932.71a-d
Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Flatware
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York, N.Y.

Bibliography

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. 121, 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. 2, p. 209, no. 878

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

dessert spoons, utilitarian objects

"RH" conjoined, in conforming punch on back of handle

Crest of bird holding olive branch, in oval, engraved on front of handle.

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