IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166923 accession number: MAR.M.195-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 28 September 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Mother-of-pearl, coral, silver and silver-gilt spoon. The oval bowl carved from mother-of-pearl and pinned to the long narrow handle. The first two sections of the handle are of mother-of pearl, which is crudely engraved with a pattern of flowers and chevrons, and has a silver-gilt band. Above are four wide bands of coral engraved with flowers and foliage and spaced by narrow silver bands. The handle terminates in a narrow undecorated coral tip. object type: mother-of-pearl, coral, silver and silver-gilt; the bowl carved from mother-of-pearl; the long decorated handle carved from mother-of-pearl and coral with silver bands 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/166923 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 22.5 CITATIONS -------- Bowled Over ---