Ladle
- Object Name:
- Ladle
- Object ID:
- 1969.052.14
- Date:
- 1760
- Description:
- Ladle. Brass bowl with iron handle. Handle flattened and widened at end for thumb rest. Tapered loop at end of handle that turns around and meets side. Shaft becomes smaller near bowl. Shaft then extends underneath bowl to thin spear-point shaped support. Two copper rivets at outside edge of bowl. Iron rivet at center of bowl. Numerous small dents and marks inside bowl. In iron support are two small holes on side edges that may have been for another use. Some striations on flat portion of handle top surface.
- Material:
- Metal
Iron
Brass
Copper - Dimensions:
- H-0.95 W-3 L-11 inches
- Provenance:
- Objects and manuscripts from the Nims and Knight families of Roxbury and the Rugg family of Sullivan, given by a descendant, Helen E. (Mrs. Charles B.) Knight of Marlborough.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Helen E. Knight
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