EditorialOutdoor eating by Adriaen van de Venne, 1587-1662, Dutch. Etching from around 1620. Food and drink, man, woman, child, barrel, dish, spoons, eating, house, traditional dress, 17th century, farm, liszt gourmet archive.
EditorialOutdoor eating by Adriaen van de Venne, 1587-1662, Dutch. Etching from around 1620. Food and drink, man, woman, child, barrel, dish, spoons, eating, house, traditional dress, 17th century, farm, liszt gourmet archive.
EditorialWoman's hand mirror and gilded silver spoons from the early 17th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefn...
EditorialThe Lampsacus spoons, Early Byzantine, 6th. Six spoons from a set of twelve, the pear-shaped bowls attached by a disc to a tapering handle. " O handsome youth, do not believe too much in beauty" reads the Latin inscription on one of these spo...
EditorialTransverse strainer-spoons from the Hoxne hoard, Roman Britain, buried in the 5th century. The gilded decoration shows Oceanus or a similar marine deity with dolphins. These two spoons are of unknown use, but they may have been used for lifting solid p...
EditorialFaience figure of a swiming girl, Greek, 6th BCE. The cosmetic spoon shows a swimming girl holding a bowl in her outstretched hands. Her naked body is coloured a blue-green and she has short, dark curly hair. The spoon was probably made on the island o...