Chinese Spoon
Chinese Spoon
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- Description (Brief)
- One of a pair of blue-green porcelain spoons that were made in China and used in Mendocino, California. This type of spoon was known by white Californians as a "railroad spoon," presumably because of its association with Chinese railroad laborers.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- spoon
- date made
- 1850 - 1875
- place made
- China
- place used
- United States: California, Mendocino
- purchased
- United States: California, San Francisco
- Physical Description
- porcelain (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in; 10.16 cm
- ID Number
- CL.65.1374B
- accession number
- 280280
- catalog number
- 65.1374B
- subject
- Eating
- Food Culture
- Chinese
- Chinese Americans
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ethnic
- Food
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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