German ivory spoon carved with a woman

An image of Cutlery/Spoon/Flatware. Unknown carver. The almost circular bowl is incised on the front with a shell, the back is carved with a coat-of-arms and crest within scrolled mantling. The handle is incised with two bands of husks or overlapping scales within thread borders. It terminates in a large carved finial of a woman in 17th century German dress holding a distaff. Ivory, carved, length, overall, 21 cm, circa 1600- circa 1700. German.

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Cutlery/Spoon/Flatware. Unknown carver. The almost circular bowl is incised on the front with a shell, the back is carved with a coat-of-arms and crest within scrolled mantling. The handle is incised with two bands of husks or overlapping scales within thread borders. It terminates in a large carved finial of a woman in 17th century German dress holding a distaff. Ivory, carved, length, overall, 21 cm, circa 1600- circa 1700. German.

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Accession Number: MAR.M.166-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 456 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 71.46kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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17th Century Date German Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd apron carved clothes clothing costume cutlery distaff dress eating implement fashion female finial hair hairstyle handle handled implement incised ivory lady shells spinning spoon woman

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