Dessert spoon
Arthur Stone
(American, born in England, 1847–1938)
Charles Brown
(American, active 1912–1937)
1912–1937
Object PlaceGardner, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/TechniqueSilver
Dimensions4.5 x 19.8 cm (1 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit LineSeth K. Sweetser Fund
Accession number1978.264
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver flatware
Collections
The combination of a trifid-end handle and a tapering rattail of raised metal down the center of the bowl indicates that the spoon was based on a London-made seventeenth-century prototype.
This text has been adapted from "Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000," edited by Jeannine Falino and Gerald W.R. Ward, published in 2008 by the MFA. Complete references can be found in that publication.
