"Medallion" Pattern Serving Spoon
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1866
name: label: Maker
content: William Gale Jr., American, b. 1825
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Deep oval bowl with pointed tip with exaggerated upward curve. Gold wash on both sides of bowl. Leaf and foliate scroll engraved stippled decoration at base and neck of bowl on obverse side and smaller scroll motif on reverse. Stem of narrow twisted cable form, widening into fiddle shaped handle engraved with patterned borders, terminating with relief medallion featuring Roman soldier with hemlet in profile, topped with half circle with engraved radiating pedal decoration. On reverse of handle, flat continous surface with stippled double line border, with scrolling decoration at terminal. In central reserve on reverse side, monogram, 'L' and '1866' inscribed.
place: label: made in
content: New York, New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
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 through gift of Katharine Cornell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1998-61-1
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: gold plated, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 21 × 5.4 × 4.2 cm (8 1/4 × 2 1/8 × 1 5/8 in.)