"Assyrian Head" Pattern Table Spoon
date: label: Date
content: 1885–86
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oval shaped bowl, polished and unadorned surface. Narrow neck and stem, decorated with diagonal reeding halfway down handle, meeting setting sun motif above banded section. Stem continues, flaring towards terminal, decorated with scrolling foliate pattern, including sun with scrolling rays. Terminating in crowned antique style "Assyrian" head with laurel surrounding neck. Terminal of slightly rounded rectagular shape, with subtle upturn. Reverse side of handle devoid of ornamentation, with plain polished surface.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Meriden, Connecticut, United States
label: manufactured in
content: United States
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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: 1995-148-9
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: silver plated, metal
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 18.2 × 4 × 3 cm (7 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.)