'Egyptian' Pattern Berry Spoon
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1875
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oval bowl, with rounded point. Narrowing towards join, with curved fins flanking each side of base. Bowl engraved with wide border of plume motif. Narrow stem, shape following form of papyrus stem, leading to tiered papyrus leaf decoration. Stem widening to flat rounded handle with pharaoh-like figure decorating terminal, flanked by peacocks in profile with papyrus leaf extending on either side, above a central reserve with engraved monogram 'ALL.' Reverse side of similar papyrus leaf decoration, devoid of pharaoh-like figure and monogram, and devoid of engraving on reverse of bowl.
place: label: manufactured in
content: North Attleboro, Massachusetts, 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: 1995-148-3
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
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 22.5 × 5.3 × 3.6 cm (8 7/8 × 2 1/16 × 1 7/16 in.)