Souvenir spoon: Lucerne
Switzerland
1890-1900
c. 1894
Measurements
5 in x 7/8 in x 1/2 in
Materials
Silver with a gold-washed bowl
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.1149
Inscription
“D.C.W. / 1894” is engraved on the back of the bowl.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
The spoon, with a twisted three-strand handle, has a mountain ram, perhaps an alpine ibex, modeled in three dimensions at the handle tip, atop a plinth. At the opposite end, near the bowl, is a half-portrait of a figure (missing one of two wings). Inside the spoon bowl, a shallow relief shows the “Lion of Lucerne,” a rock sculpture executed in 1820-21. It commemorates the Swiss Guards killed in 1792 during the French Revolution.
For another Lucerne Lion souvenir spoon, see accession no. 1971.1151.
The initials engraved onto the back of the bowl are those of Daniel Corbit Warner (1878-1895), the eldest of Mary Corbit Warner’s three sons.
