Soup Spoon
- Maker: 1847 Rogers Brothers
- Medium: Silver-plate
- Place Manufactured: Meriden, Connecticut, USA
- Dates: ca. 1911
- Dimensions: 7 x 1 15/16 x 1 in. (17.8 x 4.9 x 2.5 cm)
- Markings: stamped on back: "1847 ROGERS BROS."
- Signature: Unsigned
- Inscriptions: no inscriptions
- Collections:Decorative Arts
- Museum Location:
This item is not on view - Accession Number: 1989.20
- Credit Line: Gift of Helen Hersh
- Caption: 1847 Rogers Brothers. Soup Spoon, ca. 1911. Silver-plate, 7 x 1 15/16 x 1 in. (17.8 x 4.9 x 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Helen Hersh, 1989.20. Creative Commons-BY-NC
- Catalogue Description: A silver-plate soup spoon with a plain round bowl. The molded handle has a continuous raised but unarticulated border. The straight side of the handle flares gradually from mid-point and then inward to the end of the handle to small symmetrical volutes that frame a diamond-shape projection at the crest of the handle. There are two small symmetrical cut-outs at the crest of the handle below the volutes on either side of the diamond projection. There is a dense molded wishbone-shape garland of leaves and flowers on the broad flat end of the handle. The reverse has a raised undecorated shield above a flower and leaves at its lower point in the broad area at the end of the handle. Old Colony Pattern. CONDITION - Good; normal wear; slight overall scratching and minor pitting in bowl.
- Record Completeness: Meh (29%)
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
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