Featured An uncommon Gorham piece...

Years ago, was part of a discussion on another forum regarding a Gorham piece with a fancy bowl and an ivory handle, and in 2008, an excellent article in 'The Magazine Antiques' was published on Gorham's ivory handled pieces - can remember saying to myself, "I'd like to have one of those." Recently ran across this bonbon scoop and snapped it up, the pictures show it on the page from the article showing three of the six designs produced, mine looks to have a muscular little putto holding onto a pair of wyverns and there's a small grotesque mask at the tip, the production number is '525' and the date code is for 1891, it measures 4-1/2" long and 2" wide.

The text from the article, "In 1890 Gorham also introduced six bonbon “scoops” (Gorham’s term, although the slightly dished pieces look more like bonbon spoons or almond shakers) numbered 510, 515, 520,525, 530, 535. Each had a small uniquely shaped gilt bowl entirely occupied by a different elaborate hand-pierced rococo design and a differently shaped carved ivory handle pinned to a tubular extension from the bowl"





~Cheryl

 

Those are very cool, Cheryl! Thanks for showing them!

 

U can scoop my Bon Bon with that anytime !!!!
SweeeT !!!!!!!

 

That's so exciting to find something you longed for.

 

Those are cool! Not cheap either, I'll bet, if you can even find one.

 

What a great piece. Lovely you found it.

 

Beautiful!

 

How lovely pieces!
for the "muscular" putto on yours!

 

Gorgeous, and so nice you found yours. It is cute, even if it has fierce wyverns.

 

You made me seek......

wy·vern
Dictionary result for wyvern
/ˈwīvərn/
noun
HERALDRY

1. a winged two-legged dragon with a barbed tail.

 

Heh, not sure how fierce those wyverns are, they're being throttled by a putto...

Glad you guys like it.

~Cheryl

 

Oh, I forgot how fierce putti can be, especially after they've had a drink or two. @Bronwen knows all about that, she specializes in drunk putti (and other things).

 

Very nice, wyverns and all!

 

And looks like he can do it sitting down, too. Echoes of Herakles strangling the snakes Hera sends to kill him in his cradle.

 

so , knowing it's age......how much of a problem...( not to Cheryl though..) is the Ivory going to be.