Artist/Maker
Whiting Manufacturing Co.
(active 1866 - 1926)
Ladle
ca. 1870
Place madeProvidence, Rhode Island, United States, North America
Silver
Overall: 1 3/4 × 8 1/4 × 1 5/8 in. (4.4 × 21 × 4.1 cm)
Gift of De Witt C. Judson
1938.352
Descriptionsilver ladle in the "Alhambra" pattern with a downturned trifid end handle decorated with "Islamic style" scrolls around a shield-shaped reserve; flat rectangular stem with a molded circular socket with three rounded joints attached to a matte-finished, bucket-shaped bowl; underside of the handle engraved, "Linda" in script; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the bowl."Alhambra" pattern first issued in 1870.
Markingsengraved: on the underside of the handle: "Linda" in script
stamped: on the underside of the bowl: "STERLING/ 38" below a "W" in an oval held by a dragon and lion headed griffin
ClassificationsSILVER
