Spoon

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1779–85

Benjamin Halsted
American, 1734–1817
Probably Philadelphia

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Benjamin Halsted
Title: Spoon
Place: Philadelphia (Object Probably made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1779–1785
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Engraved on front handle, in script: JLM; mark on back handle: HALSTED
Dimensions: 15.2 × 3.8 cm (6 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Nancy Spain
Reference Number: 2020.196
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Possibly made for John L. Manley (born about 1779), Philadelphia, PA, by 1785. James R. Manley (1782–1851, brother of John L. Manley), New York, NY, by 1851; by descent to his daughter Emma Catherine Embury (born Emma Catherine Manley), Brooklyn, NY; by descent to her son James W. Embury, Brooklyn, NY; by descent to his daughter Margaret Anne Brinckerhoff (born Margaret Anne Embury), East Orange, NJ; by descent to her son James Embury Brinckerhoff, South Orange, NJ; by descent to his daughter Anne L. Spain (born Anne L. Brinckerhoff), Broward County, FL; by descent to her son Richard C. Spain, Chicago [genealogical note from Richard C. Spain, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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