Ladle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Old English type ladle with an attached horizontal oval bowl and downturned handle with midrib on back and "JJ TCC" engraved in conjoined foliate script on front; no shoulders. Swage-formed point facing up on bottom back of handle. Back of handle struck twice "EMERY" in raised serif letters in shaped surround.
label: Description
content: Attributed to Stephen Emery (1749-1801) of Boston, MA; working, circa 1775-1800. However, his mark includes his initial "S". The stamp on this ladle's handle has its left end (with initial) cut off. Stephen's son, Thomas Knox Emery (1784-1815), working 1802-1815, was also a silversmith and had an identically shaped mark with his initial "T". Perhaps Thomas removed his father's initial and used the altered stamp early in his career before having his own made.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383511
label: catalog number
content: 383511
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 13 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 34.29 cm x 10.795 cm