Samuel Kirk
Ladle
1823-1826
Physical Qualities
Silver, 7 7/8 × 2 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (20 × 6 × 3.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number
1933.54.5
Handle design: variation of "King's" pattern
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. 137, ill.
Inscribed: Engraved initial "D" on back of handle
Markings: On back of handle "KIRK" and assay marks for 1824-27 Maryland crest, "C"
On View at the BMA
