IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166834 accession number: MAR.M.153-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 25 September 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fruit wood and silver; the wood bowl is fig-shaped (part missing) on a tapering stem. The back of the bowl is carved with a vignette of Eve offering Adam an apple from a tree with a snake entwined in its branches. The silver handle is cylindrical and tapers towards the crown-shaped finial formed of four trefoils. The lower end is pierced with a pattern of trefoils. The handle is engraved with a pattern of scales, over which is applied in a spiral a scroll inscribed : 'Pane. bose. gwilvite. nad. na. wi'. object type: fruit wood and silver; the back of the wood bowl depicting Adam and Eve; the silver handle with an applied inscribed scroll title: spoon NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166834 PEOPLE ------------------- Eve Adam SUBJECTS ------------------- snake apple tree snake apple tree TECHNIQUES ---------- The wood bowl and tapering stem were carved. The silver handle may have been cast or it was seamed with the scroll applied. The finial was soldered to the terminal. The silver handle was glued to the short wood stem. The decoration on the silver handle and the inscription were engraved. carving TECHNIQUES ---------- soldering CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 16