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Spoon

(American, 1655 or 1656–1722)
about 1690
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueSilver
DimensionsOverall (length): 19.5cm (7 11/16in.)
Credit LineJohn Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession number24.444
On View
On view
ClassificationsSilver flatware
Collections
InscriptionsEngraved W/ IE for Joshua and Elizabeth Winslow in block letters on back of tip and in later script on front of stem: 1st Ch. T. by S. Winslow 1790
ProvenanceJoshua and Elizabeth (Savage) Winslow, m. 1720. To Sarah Tyng (b. 1720), daughter of Col. Eleazer and Sarah (Alford) Tyng, m. John Winslow (Joshua's brother), Sept.4, 1760. 1790, gift of Sarah Tyng to First Church in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, which became First Parish, Unitarian; Febrary 24, 1911, lent by First Parish, Unitarian to MFA. November 1924, purchased by MFA at the sale of the James A Garland Collection, American Art Gallery, NY for $100.

late 18th century
early 18th century
mid-14th–mid-15th century
second half of 14th–first third of 15th century
late 15th–early 16th century
mid-13th century