Seal-Top Spoon
Unknown English, English
1639
Silver
Diameter: 12 in. (30.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Diantha C. and George C. Harrington, Class of 1961
2014.67.2
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Course History
HIST 9.1, Empires and Colonies in North America, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2014
HIST 9.01, America: From Invasion to Independence, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2019
HIST 7.19, Medieval Paris, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2022
HIST 5.14, Americas: Invasion to Independence, Paul Musselwhite and Ernesto Mercadeo-Montero, Fall 2022
Provenance
Frank L. Harrington, Worcester, Massachusetts; to his daughter-in-law, Diantha Harrington, Framingham, Massachusetts, probably in the late 1960s; given by George C. and Diantha Harrington to present collection, 2014 (this provenance is according to Diantha’s recollection, as conveyed in an e-mail from her husband, George C. Harrington to Barbara J. MacAdam Sept. 30, 2014).
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