Souvenir spoon: Florence
Probably Florence, Italy
c. 1893
Measurements
4-1/2 x 1-1/4 x 3/8
Materials
Silver
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.1048
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
The bowl of the spoon has a relief image of the Christ child in swaddling, taken from a stucco relief made by Luca Della Robbia in 1463-1466 for Brunelleschi's Hospital of the Innocents in Forence.
The spoon has a slender shaft, characteristic of European souvenir spoons.
This spoon uses the same die as 1971.1091 except for the tip of the handle.
Bibliography
Accumulation & Display: Mass Marketing Household Goods in America, 1880-1920 (The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1986), no. 179, pp. 136-137.
