Porter Blanchard
Serving Spoon
1914-1924
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Porter Blanchard
Serving Spoon
1914-1924
Physical Qualities
Sterling silver, 12 5/8 x 2 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (32.1 x 5.7 x 3.5 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased in Honor of Stiles Tuttle Colwill on his 50th Birthday with funds contributed by his Friends and Colleagues
Object Number
2002.167
Spoon has a pointed oval bowl and pointed oval handle with a down-curved tip; tear-drop shaped stand suspended from the underside of the handle for raising and/or anchoring the handle above the platter. Hand-hammering marks are visible on all surfaces.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2002; Antiques & Rare Books, Easton, Maryland
Dorothy T. Rainwater, 'Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers' (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1975) p.26.
Louise Conway Belden, 'Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson Bissell Collection' (Charlottesville: University of Virginia for the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum, 1980) pp.472-75, 469.
Louise Conway Belden, 'Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson Bissell Collection' (Charlottesville: University of Virginia for the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum, 1980) pp.472-75, 469.
Inscribed: RECTO: Engraved "AB" on handle
Markings: Marked on reverse of handle "Sterling" "Porter Blanchard" in rectangle
