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Pierced Sauce Ladle
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| Accession #: | 4429.101 |
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| Title: | Pierced Sauce Ladle |
| Object Type: | Ladle, Serving; Ladle, Sauce |
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| Physical Description: | Small sterling silver sauce ladle has round, pierced gold-toned bowl with repousse fruit bottom and scalloped rim. Handle has unidentified pattern of low-relief leaves, flowers and scrolls on both top and reverse. Engraved symbol (including dagger) on handle top, near tip. (Same symbol on 4429.103) |
| Description: | The 1859 Comstock Lode discovery provided a large silver supply, and silver flatware became a dining essential. New serving pieces were introduced during the 1880s and 1890s, before the number of pieces in any one pattern began to decline. Grace Campbell owned an assortment of flatware pieces in various styles, occasionally monogrammed. She (or perhaps her daughter, Helen Campbell Powell) acquired a few early 19th century silver serving pieces, to complement flatware sets acquired after 1890. Silversmith Andrew Wilkie created this sauce ladle in Edinburgh Scotland in 1824-25, engraved with elements of the Adams family crest. |
| Category: | Campbell Collection |
| Geographical Reference: | Campbell House (Washington->Spokane County->Spokane) |
| Dimensions: |
Object Height/Width 6.125 x 1.75"
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| Materials/Techniques: |
sterling silver (Material)
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| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase, 2019 |
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