Silver straining spoon, by Claude Jouguet

An image of Straining spoon/spoon for olives. Flatware. Jouguet, Claude, silversmith, Paris, Colmar. The large spoon has a fiddle pattern handle with thread edge, and a cast shell at the terminal. The bowl is pierced with a lozenge of quatrefoils surrounded by scrolls within a dot and dash border. The back of the handle is engraved with a crest of a bird. Silver, the spoon was forged, the bowl was pierced, and the crest engraved, length, overall, 31.3 cm, weight, whole, 154 g, 1738-1739. Louis XV.

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Straining spoon/spoon for olives. Flatware. Jouguet, Claude, silversmith, Paris, Colmar. The large spoon has a fiddle pattern handle with thread edge, and a cast shell at the terminal. The bowl is pierced with a lozenge of quatrefoils surrounded by scrolls within a dot and dash border. The back of the handle is engraved with a crest of a bird. Silver, the spoon was forged, the bowl was pierced, and the crest engraved, length, overall, 31.3 cm, weight, whole, 154 g, 1738-1739. Louis XV.

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Accession Number: M.65-1961
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 281 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 59.58kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2007:08:16 16:35:20

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18th Century Artist/Maker Claude Jouguet Date Department Fitz_AA France French Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Places Silver Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_PCtd cutlery eating implement engraved engraving flatware forged implement pierced quatrefoil scrolling scrolls service ware serving piece silverware spoon straining spoon tableware

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