Diamond Point Spoon
Tools and EquipmentBritish16th century

Diamond Point Spoon

mid -16th-century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Description

With fig-shaped bow and tapering stem of hexagonal section with a terminal cast in the form of a hexagonal dipyramid

Classification
Tools and Equipment
Medium
Silver
Culture
British
Century
16th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

1.9 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm (3/4 x 6 x 1 7/8 in.) unspecified: 23.4 g

Provenance

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949

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