ladle
- Museum number
- OA.9484
- Description
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Ladle; wood; oval rim; flat base; body decorated all over with engraved back-to-back S-scrolls; short, broad T-shaped handle incised on top with chevrons and date underneath.
- Production date
- 1763
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.20 centimetres
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Length: 15.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Remains of original Wellcome label recording its purchase at Stevens auction house, London, 20/1/1925, lot 162, for £5, together with the description 'Wooden ladle dated 1763 [1768?], the date of entry into the Wellcome collection, 27/9/1933, and the number 30760 (?). The label also bears a fragmentary printed number 38137 (?).
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- OA.9484