Jam Bowl with Spoon
Jam Bowl with Spoon
- Description
- Circular, clear, colorless pressed glass bowl with a silver, low-domed, flared cover and matching ladle-like spoon, both decorated with strawberry vines and flowers in translucent polychrome enamels. Cover has a circular strawberry flower handle or knop and a utensil cut out for the spoon, which has a raised circular bowl and teardrop-shaped, pierced handle containing a ripe and unripe strawberry. Both pieces are struck incuse "M.P.W." and "STERLING". Bowl has a plain rim, fluted sides, and radiating star on the underside of its flat bottom; its smooth interior has a raised sans serif "H" inside a diamond or lozenge at center of well.
- Maker is Mary Peyton Winlock (1867-died after 1930) of Boston (Cambridge), MA; active, 1888-1927 (Master Crafstman, Society of Arts and Crafts). Glass manufacturer not known.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- bowl
- spoon
- date made
- 1888-1927
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- Physical Description
- silver (cover, spoon material)
- enamel (decoration material)
- glass (bowl material)
- Measurements
- overall-bowl: 2 5/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 11.7475 cm
- overall-spoon: 1 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 2.54 cm x 12.065 cm x 4.1275 cm
- ID Number
- 1988.0281.01
- accession number
- 1988.0281
- catalog number
- 1988.0281.01
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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