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Spoon with Flower Bowl Decoration Spoon
This is a spoon. It was made by Hans Henriksson Wettersten. It is dated ca. 1700 and we acquired it in 1903. Its medium is silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Manufacturing and Marketing in Europe 1600-2000" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
" Swiss spoons, for example, had leaf-shaped bowls often carved in wood and fitted to silver handles. In Scandinavia, distinctive forms persisted well into the eighteenth century. (fig. 8)"
This object was
donated by
Samuel P. Avery.
It is credited Gift of Samuel P. Avery.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 13.5 × 5 × 2.3 cm (5 5/16 × 1 15/16 × 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse of stem: [1] "H.W" [maker's mark]
Cite this object as
Spoon with Flower Bowl Decoration Spoon; Made by Hans Henriksson Wettersten (active, 1682 - 1726); Sweden; silver; L x W x D: 13.5 × 5 × 2.3 cm (5 5/16 × 1 15/16 × 7/8 in.); Gift of Samuel P. Avery; 1903-1-35
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
