Ladle
date: label: date made
content: 1807
notes: label: Description
content: Old English type ladle with offset horizontal oval bowl and rounded downturned handle with midrib on back and a foliate script "C" engraved on front; no shoulders. Swage-formed pointed drop on back of bowl. Struck on back of handle with maker's mark "D•L" in raised serif letters in an oval above five hallmarks, a crowned leopard's head in round-bottom shield, sovereign's head facing right in profile in oval, lion passant in shield, Newcastle city mark of three towers in round-bottom shield, and Newcastle date letter "R" in raised serif in a square.
label: Description
content: Maker is Dorothy Langlands (died 1845) of Newcastle, England; she was the wife of John Langlands II (active, circa 1795-1804) and continued his business in her name when he died until she retired in 1814.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Newcastle
topic: label: made by
content: Women
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John H. Crea
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.66.0555
label: catalog number
content: 66.0555
label: accession number
content: 265238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
label: Object Name
content: flatware, set, part of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 13 1/8 in x 4 in; 6.35 cm x 33.3375 cm x 10.16 cm