R. & W. Wilson
Soup Spoon

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Soup Spoon
Datec. 1826–1846
Made inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumSilver
Dimensions8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Anne Rowland
Object numberB.82.16
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Related examples: B.82.24.2 and B.82.24.1share the same provenance.

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.


ProvenanceThomas Rowland (1801–1881) and Mary Rowland (1806–1874, m. 1826); given to their son Benjamin Rowland, II (1828–1911); given to his son William Overington Rowland, Sr. (1861–1915); given to his son William Overington Rowland, Jr. (1891–1934); given to his daughter Anne Rowland (1920–2013), Williamsburg, Virginia; given to MFAH, 1982.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Engraved: TMR [Thomas and Mary Rowland]
Mark of R. &. W. Wilson [Belden 1980, p. 450, a]

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