- Ladle
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This handsome ladle makes an illuminating contrast with the previous example (B.93.2). While the components are similar in appearance, they are not identical. The treatment of the ladle reveals how a manufacturer could variously interpret and integrate contemporary motifs, most notably on this example in the sphinx terminal, which relates it to Gorham’s other Egyptian-inspired designs (see B.93.13, B.96.11).
Technical notes: The bowl is gilded.
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.
ProvenanceJames A. Gundry, Houston; given to MFAH, 1996.
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