Butter Spreader from Rockledge Service
date: label: Date
content: 1911–12
name: label: Designer
content: George Washington Maher, American, 1864–1926
label: Manufacturer
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
label: Client
content: Ernest L. and Grace King
label: Retailer
content: Spaulding & Co., American,
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Butter spreader, part of flatware service designed in "Martelé" silver for "Rockledge Estate" in Winona, Minnesota. Flat, rounded, and curving blade with curved tip. Waisted join, leading thick flat handle, with gently rounded sides, widening towards terminal. Obverse and reverse decorated with lily motif within border, stemming from join of handle continuing up handle with three sets of mirroring leaves on either side of central stem, terminating in mirroring lily blossoms encasing mongram 'EKG.' Terminal in form of segmented or flat arch. Textured hammered surface visible throughout handle.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
label: used in
content: Winona, Minnesota, 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 Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-49-3
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Type
content: knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 15.4 × 2.5 × 0.6 cm (6 1/16 in. × 1 in. × 1/4 in.)