Decorative spoon depicting a depicting a winged man with dragon
Created by Alfred Gilbert
Date: 1903
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: culinary equipment
Object type: caddy spoon
Material: wood, processed and vegetal - wax
Technique: modelled, bend
Description: A short-stemmed spoon of lacquered and painted wood forms the bowl and stem. The top shows the head and neck of a dragon curving over a winged armless figure of a man which is modelled in wax upon foundations of wire and split cane.
Notes: In the studio at the artist's death, purchased by Sigismund Goetze and the National Art Collections Fund from the Executors of Sir Alfred Gilbert's estate.
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Owned by Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum number: A.94-1936 see http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O347703/spoon/ (accessed 29 August 2010)
Makers, Owners and Patrons
Purchased by Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze
Bought from the Executors of Sir Alfred Gilbert's estate by Goetze with the National Art Collections Fund and gifted to the Victoria and Albert Museum
Citing this record
'Decorative spoon depicting a depicting a winged man with dragon', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=ann_1283196721, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
