One of two Ragout Spoons

Artists

Dimensions

29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.) 253 g

Provenance

Moses Michael Hays (1739-1805) and Rachel Myers (1738-1810), New York, Newport, and Boston, by descent; to their daughter, Judith Hays (1767-1844) and Samuel Myers (1755-1836), Richmond, by descent; to their son, Samuel Hays Myers (1799-1849), by descent; to his son, Edmund Trowbridge Dana Myers (1830-1905), by descent; to his son, Edmund Trowbridge Danan Myers, Jr. (1862-1934), by descent; to his daughter, Anna Hays Myers (b. 1895) and Daniel Doak Talley, by descent; to their heirs, sold [through Christie's, New York, January 17-18, 1992, lot 178]. [Sotheby's, New York, January 20, 2012, lot 100]. Daniel and Susan Pollack, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020