Newell Harding & Co.
Serving Spoon

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Serving Spoon
Datec. 1851–1889
Made inBoston, Massachusetts, United States
MediumSilver
Dimensions2 1/4 × 12 in. (5.7 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Phyllis and Charles Tucker in memory of Mr. Pat Greenwood
Object numberB.91.33
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Metals Study Room
Exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

By the mid-nineteenth century Neoclassical design was resurrected and reconfigured into a new style now popularly referred to as colonial revival. George Washington, as “Father of his Country” was the historical figure most celebrated. The profile employed here is perhaps his best-known likeness, based on Jean-Antoine Houdon’s classic portrait bust.

Related examples: Soeffing 1988b, pp. 54–55; the Ineson-Bissell Collection at Winterthur.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


ProvenancePhyllis and Charles Tucker, Houston; given to MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Marked incuse: N. HARDING&CO.; PURE COIN

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