Teaspoon
Object Label
The modish hairstyle, form-fitting dress, and brazenly casual pose help to identify this sitter as a flapper—the name given to liberated young American women during the Roaring Twenties.
Guy Pène du Bois is said to have found his inspiration for this painting in the work of another chronicler of the era, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The writer’s 1922 short story “Gretchen’s Forty Winks” featured the character Gretchen Halsey, “a bright-colored, Titian-haired girl, vivid as a French rag doll.”
Caption
William Parkin; W.C. Beattie; Reed & Barton American, 1840–present. Teaspoon, ca. 1879. Silver plate, 5 7/8 x 1 5/16 x 7/8 in. (14.9 x 3.3 x 2.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by Joseph V. Garry, 1989.71.2. Creative Commons-BY
Designers
Maker
Title
Teaspoon
Date
ca. 1879
Geography
Place manufactured: Taunton, Massachusetts, United States
Medium
Silver plate
Classification
Dimensions
5 7/8 x 1 5/16 x 7/8 in. (14.9 x 3.3 x 2.2 cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
Stamped on back: "2 (Maltese Cross)" REED & BARTON"
Credit Line
Purchased with funds given by Joseph V. Garry
Accession Number
1989.71.2
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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