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Maker(s):Hurd, Jacob
Culture:American (1702/3-1758)
Title:ladle
Date Made:circa 1740
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver; wood
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Measurements:overall: 14 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in x 2 in; 36.83 cm x 10.4775 cm x 5.08 cm
Accession Number:  HD 75.478
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Silver ladle with a fluted, double-lipped bowl attached to a turned wooden handle with a silver forked support, which is marked ""HURD" in a rectangle once inside the bowl for Jacob Hurd (1702/3-1758). Jacob Hurd has long been recognized as one of the leading New England silversmiths of the mid-18th century. The patriarch of a prominent Boston silversmithing family, he produced a wide range of tablewares in the Queen Anne style. This elegant and useful design is not unique to the work of Hurd; Paul Revere, Sr. made a very similar ladle now in the Worcester Museum, and others are known.

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