George Washington Riggs
Dessert Spoon
1814
Scroll
George Washington Riggs
Dessert Spoon
1814
Physical Qualities
Silver, 7 x 1 1/2 x 7/8 in. (17.8 x 3.8 x 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.124a
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
American Wing Rotations 2022
American Wing Rotations 2023
American Wing Rotations 2024
American Wing Rotations 2025
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 125.
Markings: engraved on end of spoon "L" or "I" or "G" in script stamps - "RIGGS", Maryland crest, "A", head profile
On View at the BMA
