AN AMERICAN SILVER SAUCE LADLE AND NINE MATCHING DESSERT KNIVES
AN AMERICAN SILVER SAUCE LADLE AND NINE MATCHING DESSERT KNIVES

MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880

细节
AN AMERICAN SILVER SAUCE LADLE AND NINE MATCHING DESSERT KNIVES
Mark of Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1880
Persian pattern, the sauce ladle engraved with monogram AHR, the dessert knives (with silver blades) engraved with monogram SL, marked on reverses
The sauce ladle 6¾in. (17.2cm.) long; 14oz. (444gr.) (10)
来源
The monogram on the sauce ladle is that of Anna Hall Roosevelt, mother of Eleanor Roosevelt.

The monogram on the dessert knives is that of Susan Ludlow Parish, godmother and cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt.
展览
The sauce ladle was exhibited in the Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial, New York State travelling exhibition, 1984

拍品专文

Eleanor Roosevelt used this ladle with the silver sauceboat at Val-Kill. It is documented in photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt's dining room at Val-Kill.