DRAGON HUNTER SPOON
I have placed a ruler and a normal tea
sized spoon in the picture to help you visualize the size
The spoon is marked "Marshall Fields Co. sterling
7015"
The spoon measures almost
10.5" (265mm) and it is primarily cast
work with repousse/ chasing and detail work.
This spoon
exhibits nice quality silversmithing.
Marshall
Fields
Marshall Field advertisement featuring the Dragon Hunter spoon
Located
on State Street in the Loop of Downtown Chicago, Marshall Fields was
the world's largest department store.
It
became an important social destination for Chicago's elite because of
its high end merchandise and its many restaurants and lounges
inside
the 16 story Trude building at the corner of Wabash and Randolph
or the 20 story annex acrose the street at 25 East Washington.
At the finial we have a weeping boy (man?) seated at
a table
while two men talk
to him.
notice the nice clothing styles
I am not sure of the significance of this scene
but I suspect that the stem which shows an urn and
flowers indicates that this might have been a funeral server
notice the odd shaped cast, repousse/chased bowl
The main picture shows a tree towering over a pipe
smoking man carrying a rifle with a dog at his heels
My guess is that he is hunting for dragons
(perhaps this is similar to Don Quijote tilting at
windmills?)
In the background are houses and a windmill
Above his head on the shoulders of the bowl dragons
are perched
I greatly enlarged the dragon so you could see it. It
is actually quite detailed
with fire and wings
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