Dumbarton Oaks - Spoon with Pointed Tip

Spoon with Pointed Tip

Early Byzantine
4th century (or late medieval)
1.59 cm x 4.92 cm x 22.07 cm (5/8 in. x 1 15/16 in. x 8 11/16 in.)
silver and gilding
BZ.1960.126

Not on view

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Obverse

Description

The rounded bowl has a slightly pointed tip opposite the handle. The handle, ending with an animal head at the bowl, has ribbed decoration halfway down the shaft and terminates with a triple-baluster finial. The spoon is gilded.

Bibliography

M. Ross, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. I (Washington, DC, 1962), no. 2, pl. XVI.

Dumbarton Oaks, Handbook of the Byzantine Collection (Washington, D.C., 1967), no.54.

Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Accompanied by American Paintings from the Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, ed. Asen Kirin, Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA, 2005), cat. no. 33.

Exhibition History

Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, “Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Accompanied by American Paintings from the Collection of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss,” May 15 – November 6, 2005.

Acquisition History

George Zacos

Gift of Mildred Barnes and Robert Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, 1960.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.

Object Last Modified: 8/18/2021