George Washington Riggs
Dessert Spoon
1814
Physical Qualities
Silver, 7 x 1 1/2 x 7/8 in. (17.8 x 3.8 x 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.124a
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD
Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 125.
Markings: engraved on end of spoon "L" or "I" or "G" in script stamps - "RIGGS", Maryland crest, "A", head profile
On View at the BMA
