Set of Eight Antique Gorham Sterling Silver Five O'Clock Tea Spoons

Each marked with the Gorham trademark and "Sterling;" one with looped handle and applied limpet shell, numbered "8;" one with stamped handle and applied seaweed and fish, numbered "4;" one with fish form handle and numbered "6;" one with fish form bowl and applied seaweed and oyster shell to handle, numbered "10;" one with shell form bowl and applied seaweed and crab to handle, numbered "2;" and three spoons with shell form bowls and applied seaweed and fish trophy, numbered "12."

5 1/8 in. (each approximately)

3.75 total troy oz.

In the 1880s, the Gorham Manufacturing Company embraced Aesthetic Movement and Japonisme influences, producing silver that reflected the period’s growing Western interest in Japanese art and design.

These spoons relate closely to Gorham’s Narragansett pattern, introduced in 1884. Named for the Narragansett people of coastal Rhode Island, the design draws on local marine motifs such as shells, seaweed, and other shoreline forms found along the region’s waters.

All but one of these spoons is illustrated in the 1888 Gorham catalogue.

Good estate condition.

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