"Medallion" Pattern Sifting Spoon
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1865
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Ball, Black & Co.
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Round pierced and fluted bowl, with scalloped edge. Fluting radiating from central round pierced reserve. Interior of bowl gold plated. Neck flanked with small scroll ends on either side, continuing to create side borders of thin stem, segmented by small central floral medallion. Stem terminating in spiral ends extending on either side, above oval antique style coin medallion with Roman soldier in profile against horizontally hatched ground. Topped with small ball finial. Reverse side plain in surface and devoid of decoration.
place: label: manufactured in
content: New York, New York, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-148-2
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: spoon
label: Type
content: spoon
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: gold plated, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 20 × 6.4 × 3.3 cm (7 7/8 × 2 1/2 × 1 5/16 in.)