Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial
Cooper Hewitt

Apostle Spoon with St. Thomas or St. Matthew Finial

ca. 1661

gold plated, silver
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

With a long slender handle rectangular in section, terminating in a slightly oval bowl. Handle tapering slightly and terminating in finial of cast figure of an apostle apparently holding a carpenter's square, generally associated with St. Thomas, although earlier representations of St. Matthew also showed him with such a square.

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