Tools and EquipmentBritish17th century
Set of Three Trefid Spoons
1678
Artists
Adam KingArtist
Description
Trifid-end stems and oval bowls, the terminals stamped with a wild figure amid foliage, the backs of the rat-tail bowls stamped with foliage, the back of one of the terminals engraved with a crest, another pricked A I over 1680 and another engraved H over TM, all three pricked with later initials EEW.
Dimensions
20 x 4.76 cm (7 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Provenance
David Berg, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Museum, 1999.
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