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Hinged wooden spoon carved with a woman on horseback

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An image of Cutlery/Spoon/Flatware. Folding, in the form of two hinged oval bowls. The back of the one used as a handle is carved with a tree with stylised flowers and fruit within a gadroon border; the inside is deeply carved as a woman on horseback. The wood was carved in two pieces which were joined with a hinge. Fruit wood, length, overall, 14.5 cm, circa 1650-circa 1700. German.

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Cutlery/Spoon/Flatware. Folding, in the form of two hinged oval bowls. The back of the one used as a handle is carved with a tree with stylised flowers and fruit within a gadroon border; the inside is deeply carved as a woman on horseback. The wood was carved in two pieces which were joined with a hinge. Fruit wood, length, overall, 14.5 cm, circa 1650-circa 1700. German.

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  • Accession Number: MAR.M.145-1912; MAR.M.145
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/39.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 688 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 129.63kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 39/1

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17th Century Date Department Fitz_AA German Material Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd carved cutlery eating implement floral flowers fruit wood gadrooned gadroons hinged hinges implement spoon trees wood wooden

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