Soup Ladle
date: label: year pattern patented
content: 1896
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: "Maryland" pattern small soup ladle with a wide, five-lobed, flared-lip circular bowl and an upturned, wavy-ended handle threaded on front and back terminating in a ruffle tip flanked by C scrolls; gold wash inside bowl. The front additionally has pendant fruits and a ruffled shell reserve engraved with a flecked script letter "H". Nine-lobed shell on back of bowl. Pattern on back of shaft incorporates three raised marks at bottom, "PAT. 1896" arched in roman letters, Gorham trademark (right -facing lion passant, anchor, and gothic or Old English "G") and "STERLING" in roman letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
label: place used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
label: used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of August Mencken
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.68.0455
label: catalog number
content: 68.0455
label: accession number
content: 274913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 10 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 26.9875 cm x 8.89 cm