Soup Ladle

Date1815 - 1855

Mediumsilver

Dimensions13 × 4 1/2 inches (33 × 11.4 cm)

MarkingsMaker's mark stamped on the handle back: D.B.NICHOL_ [in incomplete rectangle]

Credit LineBequest of Alida Harper Fowlkes in memory of her great-grandfather Judge William Law.

Object number1989.2.1

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CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextThis soup ladle is inscribed with an L on the handle for Judge William Law (1793-1874), who served as a Superior Court Judge from 1828 to 1834 and as a Chatham County representative in the state legislature. He was a member of the Board of Education and a founding member of the Georgia Historical Society. He also enslaved dozens of laborers at properties in Savannah and Chatham County. Silversmith David B. Nichols (1791-1860) was born in 1791 in New Haven, Connecticut and worked as a silversmith, jeweler, watchmaker, and retailer in Savannah, Georgia from 1815 to 1839 and again from 1843 to 1855. He formed a brief partnership with John P. Smith in 1820 as D.B. Nichols & Co. and continued as D.B. Nichols & Co. until 1830. The Kings pattern is a fiddle handle with scrolled and threaded edges and includes a scallop shell and anthemion motifs in relief along the stem.

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