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Spoon (one of a pair)

Cesar Ghiselin (about 1670–1734)
about 1700
Object Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift in memory of Dr. George Clymer by his wife, Mrs. Clymer
Accession Number56.587
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver flatware

Catalogue Raisonné Buhler, 1972, No. 511
DescriptionBroad trifid tip. Beaded rat-tail drops.
Marks CG in inverted heart twice on back of stem
InscriptionsL / RP on back of tip
ProvenanceDescended in the family to Dr. George Clymer; 1939, lent by Dr Clymer to MFA; by inheritance to his wife; 1956, gift of Mrs Clymer to MFA. (Accession date: Oct 11 1956)