Sugar Spoon

Arts of the Americas

1850–60

D.C. Ayer
American, active 1850–1860
Boston

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: D. C. Ayer
Title: Sugar Spoon
Place: Boston (Object 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. 1850–1860
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Mark: "D.C.AYER" in rectangle on back of handle; also "BOSTON" in rectangle; inscribed: "A.C. Young" in script on front on handle.
Dimensions: 17.2 × 3.7 cm (6 3/4 × 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Mrs. A. Loring Rowe Fund
Reference Number: 1970.9
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Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 184.

Frances M. Bartlett (born Frances Marie Jacobson, also Mrs. John W. Bartlett, 1912–1999), Aurora, IL, by 1969 [incoming receipt RX7255, Nov. 25, 1969; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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