- Ladle
- from the “Silence” pattern
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The name for this simple, elegant pattern is not known; however, its introduction coincided with Gorham’s other Egyptian-inspired designs. The ladle’s graceful stylized bowl and kneeling figures seem paradoxical with its spare reed-shaped handle and its ornamental reel, reminiscent of a sixteenth-century English seal-top spoon.
Technical notes: The bowl is gilded.
Related examples: Venable 1994, pp. 64, 69.
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, 1996.
Exhibition History"Egyptomania," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 18–August 5, 2012.
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