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Description: | Standard: Lion Passant
Assay: Leopard's head, crowned
Date: indistinguishable
Maker: indistinguishable CRE UNKNOWN; This silver ladle has a perforated circular bowl with elaborate foliate decoration and a plain handle with a Hanoverian pattern with a butterfly engraved at the top of the stem. Alhough the spoon seems to large for sugar, the entry in Whistler's Plate Book reads " Silver sugar spoon, English perforated bowl, present, Rome 1888."
This is part of a collection of over 350 pieces of flatware and cutlery from the Whistler Estate. Whistler's silver was a working collection of late 18th and ealry 19th century Dutch and English ware, acquired in the late 1880s and 1890s with his wife Beatrix Whistler. A plate book (coll. Glasgow University Library Special Collections, ref W NB7) records some purchases. Whistler's taste was for elegant neo-classical pieces which he often had marked with his distinctive butterfly design. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HANOVERIAN : WHISTLER CENTENARY : BUTTERFLY : SPOON : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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