Mote Spoon

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Collection Type

Cooking equipment

Date

1715-1740

GUSN

GUSN-2532

Description

Shallow oval bowl pierced with scrolls on long slender round handle capped with a point.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mote spoons
piercing
silver (metal)
Silver
Pierced
SPOON

Inscription

Hammered mark on handle back (illegible maker's mark).

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

5.75 (H) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.582

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