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.
ProvenanceArthur and Elizabeth Bent Stone estate to their companion Annie E. Priest; by descent to Alma Bent, Stone’s cousin, from whom the Museum purchased the piece.
