GENERAL DESCRIPTION
During the 19th century, high tea was a daily ritual of many wealthy Americans and a symbol of feminine domesticity and hospitality. At its most lavish, the ritual required not only tea services, but also elaborate tea flatware sets. The innovative pattern (no. 285) of this spoon, and the set it belongs to, was available only in specialty flatware. Other items included an ice cream knife, a fish fork and knife, a nut spoon and pick, and a melon knife and fork, forms that attest to the specialization of silverware precipitated by the introduction of new foods into the American diet.
Adapted from
Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 128, 130, 337.
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updated rule and title - 9/8 (JBA)
I removed a technique ("bright-cut") from the Medium display field in TMS and added its as Getty Vocabulary term.
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, and Published references in TMS.
I added the following as a TMS Text Entry: Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 337.
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General Description
During the 19th century, high tea was a daily ritual of many wealthy Americans and a symbol of feminine domesticity and hospitality. At its most lavish, the ritual required not only tea services, but also elaborate tea flatware sets. The innovative pattern (no. 285) of this spoon, and the set it belongs to, was available only in specialty flatware. Other items included an ice cream knife, a fish fork and knife, a nut spoon and pick, and a melon knife and fork, forms that attest to the specialization of silverware precipitated by the introduction of new foods into the American diet.
Adapted from
Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 128, 130, 337.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- YouTube~Watch a video about Gorham Manufacturing Company.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art~Read more about Nineteenth-Century American Silver.
Notes
updated rule and title - 9/8 (JBA)
I removed a technique ("bright-cut") from the Medium display field in TMS and added its as Getty Vocabulary term.
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, and Published references in TMS.
I added the following as a TMS Text Entry: Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 337.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1993: The V. Stephen Vaughan Collection, Chelsea, Massachusetts
From 1993: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from the above
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