Spoon
48-2-188
From: Italy | Orvieto | Etruria
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 48-2-188 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italian |
| Provenience | Italy | Orvieto | Etruria |
| Date Made | 1400-1599 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Bronze |
| Description | Spoon cleaned in 1966. Breaks across the upper third of the bowl and between the stem and bowl are repaired with solder. The bowl is fig-shaped, and the stem is hexagonal in section. The knopf is a torso of a man wearing a breast plate and helmet. Stamped on the back of the bowl, just under the stem, is a Maltese cross. |
| Length | 14.9 cm |
| Width | 4.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948 |
| Other Number | 136 - Collector Number | L-2-258 - Old Loan Number |
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