Marrow spoon

Dateca. 1718

MediumSilver

DimensionsL: 6"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1971-396

DescriptionMarrow spoon. Plain bowl and gauge.
Label TextMarrow spoons with conventional spoon bowls and narrow channeled handles for the removal of marrow from bones first appear about 1690. Early examples, often included in traveling sets, are sometimes engraved and gilded. Late seventeenth-century examples are rarely fully marked. During the first two decades of the eighteenth century, they increase in number and are usually fully marked.
InscribedOwner's initials and date ( C O 1718) engraaved on underside of handle.
MarkingsMarks on back of spoon handle. Owner's marks and date, "G O 1718"
ProvenanceVendor: Garrard & Co. Ltd., London,