The spoon with shell form bowl. The tapering lower stem stamped with spralling diagonal rope twist culminating in a ruffle-topped scroll at mid-stem. The flaring terminal engraved with a ruffle-enhanced scroll and topped with a bold stamped shell.
Credit: Gift of Samuel P. Avery
18th century
Silver
1898-6-19
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Permanent collection