Description:
One of two English creamware tablespoons with pointed oval bowls and slightly upturned rat-tail pattern terminals. At the time, metal spoons were the norm, but they often conducted heat, and tarnished and tainted the taste of certain foods. English ceramic pattern books such as those of the Wedgwood, Leeds, Whitehead, Castleford and Don Potteries document the production of spoons similar to these examples based on a silver design in the last decades of the 18th century, which are called "Table Spoons." Josiah Wedgwood and other creamware manufacturers made creamware spoons of all sizes, from table spoons to salt spoons, from circa 1770 until the second half of the 19th century. These were generally plain but were supplied also to match handpainted or printed patterns, and long-handled spoons were part of the dairy ware available. Philadelphia merchant, Joseph Stansbury, advertised a variety of English creamware in the "Pennsylvania Gazette" in 1769. Ceramic spoons are exceptionally vulnerable to breakage, and examples from the 18th century are extremely scarce. See also a set of six creamware spoons, HD 2002.6.1-.6.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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