Spoon, Cachart, Elias, London, 1749-1750
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1749-1750
Spoon, Cachart, Elias, London, 1749-1750 is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1749-1750. The museum's brief description reads: Silver, English, London, 1749-50, mark of Elias Cachart. Museum description: silver spoon, Hanoverian pattern with a double drop and a crest of a moor's head engraved on the finial The museum record gives material recorded as silver; measurements Length 20 cm; Weight 70.6 g; place associated: London; maker recorded: Cachart, Elias. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
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- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
This spoon is a typical example of a type popular across Europe in the first decade of the eighteenth century until about 1770. The style emerged in England in around 1710, and has become known as 'Hanoverian' because it was popular during the reigns of the first two Hanoverian monarchs (George I and George II), who ruled between 1714-1760. The double drop at the heel of this example (where the stem joins the bowl) is characteristic of spoons made after around 1730. The finial of the spoon has been designed so that the spoon can be placed on the table with its open bowl down (the opposite of how it would be set on the table today) and this is why the crest on this example is engraved on what we would now think of as the back of the spoon. This arrangement followed French fashions, which had developed at the end of the seventeenth century.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Dimensions
- Length 20 cm; Weight 70.6 g
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Silver, forged and engraved
- Maker recorded
- Cachart, Elias
- Place recorded
- London
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- Engraved on finial with crest of a moor's head, the crest of M. Clelland; Struck on the stem of the spoon, L to R towards the bowl: 'O' in a shaped punch, the date letter for the assay year 1749-50; leopard's head crowned, mark of the London assay office; lion passant, mark of sterling standard silver; maker's mark 'EC' for Elias Cachart.
Identification
- Museum attribution
- Cachart, Elias
- Museum object name
- Spoon
- Museum object number
- 147-1903
- Museum system number
- O271845
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the museum record and a specialist reference.