Spoon with Carved Figural Coral Handle
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600–1630
notes: label: Description
content: Oval spoon bowl, gilded neck elaborately decorated with leaves, masks and scrollwork. Slightly curving handle of red coral, carved with a grotesque head on the front, above the upper body of a woman holding a ewer in one hand and an urn in the other, as if pouring liquid from one into the other. Back of handle has decorative pattern.
place: label: made in
content: Nuremberg, Germany
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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: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1985-103-82
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: coral, silver plated, gold
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 19.5 × 4.9 × 3 cm (7 11/16 × 1 15/16 × 1 3/16 in.)