IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166832 accession number: MAR.M.144-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 25 September 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fruit wood and silver; the wood bowl is fig-shaped on a tapering stem which has been incised with two pairs of chevrons on the front. The silver handle is five-sided and broadens towards the flat shield-shaped terminal. The front and sides of the handle have been engraved with a pattern of lines, and the terminal is initialled 'A.M'. object type: fruit wood and silver; wood bowl with silver handle and flat shield-shaped finial initialled 'A.M.' title: spoon NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166832 TECHNIQUES ---------- The wood bowl and tapering stem were carved. The seam down the back of the silver handle was soldered and the finial soldered to the terminal. The hollow silver handle was glued to the short wood stem. The decoration on the silver handle and the initals on the finial were engraved. carving TECHNIQUES ---------- soldering CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 15.6 CITATIONS -------- Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen Cutlery: From Gothic to Art Deco: The J. Hollander Collection ---