Ladle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1760 - 1794
notes: label: Description
content: Ladle made as a single piece, with shallow circular bowl and straight, downturned handle, rectangular in section, ending in a circular hanger. Front of handle struck near bowl with circular mark containing "WK" in raised roman letters between a crosslet above and below.
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly William Kirby (c. 1738-after 1810/1811) of New York, NY. Kirby was a pewterer; attribution of this ladle and other brass utensils to him is based on the similarity of their marks to the mark Kirby used on pewter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0939.013
label: accession number
content: 1978.0939
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0939.013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 17 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 45.085 cm x 9.525 cm