Caption

Souvenir spoon, Paderewski, Ignacy Jan 1860-1941, rural scenes, genre scenes, cows, peasants. Decorative spoon with an ovoid scoop with a genre scene inside a barn—depicting resting peasants in peasant costumes, with hats on their heads. In the foreground a man sitting on a stool, his back turned; to his left a standing man, his right hand leaning on a rake?, in his left he holds a pipe, which he raises to his mouth; in the background a seated man with his hand resting on his knee. A twisted wire handle finished with a cow figure with a bell around its neck. Unmarked, late 19th century, Netherlands, cutlery, varia; length 11 cm, width 2.6 cm, weight 15 g., A silver spoon lies horizontally on a smooth gray background, showing a shallow oval bowl with a raised detailed scene of a reclining figure and surrounding interior elements, a twisted ornate handle with floral and scroll motifs, and a decorative terminal featuring a small animal figure standing on a flat base; visible colors are silver tones and gray.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A09_077

License type

Rights managed

Available size

57.9Mb (875.2Kb) / 20.0in x 11.3in / 6000 x 3375 (300dpi)

Keywords

Souvenir spoon Paderewski Ignacy Jan 1860-1941 rural scenes genre scenes cows peasants Decorative spoon ovoid scoop genre scene inside barn depicting resting peasant costumes hats heads foreground man sitting stool back turned left standing man right hand leaning rake holds pipe raises mouth background seated man hand resting knee twisted wire handle finished cow figure bell neck Unmarked late 19th century Netherlands cutlery varia length 11 cm width 2.6 cm weight 15 g silver spoon lies horizontally smooth gray background showing shallow oval bowl raised detailed scene reclining figure surrounding interior elements twisted ornate handle floral scroll motifs decorative terminal featuring small animal figure standing flat base visible colors silver tones gray.