IDENTIFIERS
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id:	166927
accession number:	M.106-1930

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Walrus ivory, bone, red coral and white metal (silver?) spoon. The shallow fig-shaped bowl is carved from walrus ivory, using its distinctive grain pattern to maximum effect, and has a short stem.  A metal ferrule, engraved with chevrons, joins the stem to the long narrow tapering bone handle, which is made in two adjoining sections: the lower plain, the upper half carved with a raised pattern of lozenges.  Above this is another chevron-engraved white metal (silver?) ferrule, and the handle terminates in a branch of red coral.
object type: Walrus ivory, bone, red coral and white metal (silver?); the bowl carved from walrus ivory and the long narrow handle carved from bone with white metal ferrules and red coral branch finial
title:	spoon

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Smart, Frank


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Frank Smart Collection
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166927





CATEGORIES
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category: cutlery

DATING
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creation date:	1650 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1650
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	17th Century, Mid-19th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 23.5