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Spoon

1727–28
Not on view
These spoons are engraved with the combined coats of arms of Henry Bentinck, first Duke of Portland (1682 - 1726), Governor of Jamaica, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Noel (1688 - 1737), daughter of Wriothesley Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. She would have ordered these spoons shortly after her husband’s death in 1726. They were likely made by Paul Hanet, one of the foremost Huguenot spoon makers in eighteenth-century London. His family, along with many other Huguenot craftspeople, had fled France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Spoon
  • Maker: Paul Hanet (born 1677, recorded until 1733)
  • Date: 1727–28
  • Culture: British, London
  • Medium: Silver
  • Dimensions: Length (.93 and .94): 7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm);
  • Classification: Metalwork-Silver
  • Credit Line: Gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958
  • Object Number: 58.7.93
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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