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Study of Four Tree Trunks (Three Birches)
ca. 1855
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Sauce ladle

Sauce ladle
Sauce ladle
Sauce ladle
Object name 
Sauce ladle
Date 
ca. 1840
Related People 
Artist/Maker: John Hatch Chedell
Medium 
Silver
Dimensions 
Overall: 8 1/4 x 2 1/2 x 3/4 in. ( 21 x 6.4 x 1.9 cm )
Description 
silver sauce ladle with a downturned fiddle handle engraved, "Chedell" in script, flared shoulders and a deep circular bowl; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the handle.
Credit Line 
Gift of Joan R. Drummond and John Chedell Richardson, Jr.
Object Number 
1984.127
Marks 
engraved: on the handle: "Chedell" in script stamped: on the underside of the handle: "CHEADELL" in a rectangle, "AUBURN" in a rectangle
Gallery Label 
The donors are the great-great-granddaughter and grandson of the silversmith.
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