Jam spoon with oval bowl and stem ending in oak leaves
Also known as: Confiture lepel met ovale bak en steel eindigend in eikenbladeren
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1779
The egg-shaped bowl is connected by means of a single drop to the cast stem, curved at the base and straight thereafter, shaped like a branch, which splits at the end into two twisted twigs with oak leaves, with an acorn between them decorated on the underside as a leaf. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-15738-A; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); measurements length 10.5 cm x weight 14 g. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Measurements
- length 10.5 cm x weight 14 g
- Dimensions museum
- length 10.5 cm x weight 14 g
Identification
- Original title
- Confiture lepel met ovale bak en steel eindigend in eikenbladeren
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-15738-A
- Museum classification
- spoon · jam spoon
Catalogue references
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