"Assyrian Head" Pattern Cheese Scoop
date: label: Date
content: 1885–86
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898
label: Designer
content: Rogers Brothers Silver, Hartford and Meriden, Connecticut, 1847 - 1862
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small trowel-shaped bowl, baluster shaped neck and stem, decorated with curving lines above two flowers within border on stippled ground. Narrowing to small section with layered vertical disc motif, meeting a wider plain section of stem, before circular lip at top of handle. Handle decoration begining with 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. Reverse side of handle decorated with identical pattern. Handle thick and rectangular in section.
place: label: made in
content: Meriden, Connecticut, 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: 1996-79-4
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: scoop
label: Type
content: scoop
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver plated, metal
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 21 × 3.2 × 1.7 cm (8 1/4 × 1 1/4 × 11/16 in.)