Spoon with the crowned Orange-Nassau coat of arms on the bowl

The egg-shaped bowl is connected by means of a rat-tail, the surface of which is decorated with stylized leaves, to the cast stem, curved at the junction and then straight.

At the junction, the stem is formed as a widened, openwork section decorated with leaf volutes and a mask. Above this, it consists of two stylized, intertwined branches with thorns and an engraved surface, and is surmounted by a likewise widened motif of dolphins and leaves, supporting a profiled pedestal with a beaded border. On this stands a woman in a long robe wearing a headscarf, holding a bunch of flowers in her right hand and a palm branch in her left hand.

Engraved on the upper side of the bowl is the crowned Orange-Nassau coat of arms. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-NM-4238; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique gild, engraving; measurements length 17.9 cm x weight 54 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.