Tablespoons by Tookey - Revision history

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	'''Location:''' Monticello's Visitor Center		'''Location:''' Monticello's Visitor Center

-	'''Provenance:''' [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]; Yale Univesity Art Gallery, Gift of De Lancey Kountze, B.A. 1899, and Thomas Jefferson Foundation	+	'''Provenance:''' [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]; Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of De Lancey Kountze, B.A. 1899, and Thomas Jefferson Foundation

	'''Historical Notes:''' When Thomas Jefferson married the young widow Martha Wayles Skelton in January 1772, she brought to their household a number of items acquired during her first marriage to Bathurst Skelton, 1766-68. On January 18, 1772, Jefferson made a list in his Fee Book, "By sundry European goods on hand at the death of B. Skelton & taken by me." The list mentions many household items, including one silver ladle, one dozen tablespoons, one dozen teaspoons, two pairs "gaderoon [[Tripod Salts\|salts]]" with four glass liners and four "salt shovels."<ref>Thomas Jefferson, Fee Book, 1764-1765. Henry E. Huntington Library.</ref>		'''Historical Notes:''' When Thomas Jefferson married the young widow Martha Wayles Skelton in January 1772, she brought to their household a number of items acquired during her first marriage to Bathurst Skelton, 1766-68. On January 18, 1772, Jefferson made a list in his Fee Book, "By sundry European goods on hand at the death of B. Skelton & taken by me." The list mentions many household items, including one silver ladle, one dozen tablespoons, one dozen teaspoons, two pairs "gaderoon [[Tripod Salts\|salts]]" with four glass liners and four "salt shovels."<ref>Thomas Jefferson, Fee Book, 1764-1765. Henry E. Huntington Library.</ref>

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	'''Created:''' 1768/1769		'''Created:''' 1768/1769

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	'''Materials:''' silver		'''Materials:''' silver

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	'''Dimensions:''' L: 21.6 (8 1/2 in.); Total wt: 109.9 g (3 oz. 10 dwt. 16 gr.)		'''Dimensions:''' L: 21.6 (8 1/2 in.); Total wt: 109.9 g (3 oz. 10 dwt. 16 gr.)
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		+	'''Location:''' Monticello's Visitor Center

	'''Provenance:''' [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]; Yale Univesity Art Gallery, Gift of De Lancey Kountze, B.A. 1899, and Thomas Jefferson Foundation		'''Provenance:''' [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]; Yale Univesity Art Gallery, Gift of De Lancey Kountze, B.A. 1899, and Thomas Jefferson Foundation

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	The surviving silver from the Skelton estate is the work of at least three London silversmiths. Though unmarked, the two [[Salt Spoons\|salt spoons]] were probably purchased at the same time and are believed to be part of the same set; the unusual handles might be shaped in the form of an S for Skelton. Silversmith James Tookey made the Onslow pattern [[Soup Ladle\|soup ladle]] in 1764/65. The set of [[Teaspoons\|teaspoons with spiral gadrooned handles]] also bear his mark, but with no date letter or other hallmarks. They were probably made about 1768 when his wife, Elizabeth Tookey, made this similar set of tablespoons with downturned handles. The silver must have arrived in Virginia shortly before or just after Bathurst Skelton's death in October 1768. They are engraved with the block letters "BMS" for Bathurst and Martha Skelton.		The surviving silver from the Skelton estate is the work of at least three London silversmiths. Though unmarked, the two [[Salt Spoons\|salt spoons]] were probably purchased at the same time and are believed to be part of the same set; the unusual handles might be shaped in the form of an S for Skelton. Silversmith James Tookey made the Onslow pattern [[Soup Ladle\|soup ladle]] in 1764/65. The set of [[Teaspoons\|teaspoons with spiral gadrooned handles]] also bear his mark, but with no date letter or other hallmarks. They were probably made about 1768 when his wife, Elizabeth Tookey, made this similar set of tablespoons with downturned handles. The silver must have arrived in Virginia shortly before or just after Bathurst Skelton's death in October 1768. They are engraved with the block letters "BMS" for Bathurst and Martha Skelton.
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		+	With such ornamental features as shells, gadrooning, and cabriole legs, the Skelton silver is typical of the Rococo style that was popular in America in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. These are some of the few items in the Rococo taste that Jefferson kept at Monticello throughout his lifetime. While he had other pieces of old silver melted down and formed into Neoclassical objects more to his liking, the Skelton items were saved, perhaps for sentimental reasons. In the safekeeping of [[Martha Jefferson Randolph]], they appeared in part on two lists she made of Monticello silver. On her "housewife list," c. 1823, are "9 twist handle tea spoons."<ref>Martha Jefferson Randolph, housewife list, c. 1823, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.</ref> About 1833 she made another inventory of silver packed in a pine chest. This sheet was pasted to the inside of the chest's lid, and among the 135 pieces included were "4 salt cellars" and "4 salt spoons, 1 broken," plus two ladles, thirteen English teaspoons, and a number of teaspoons.<ref>Martha Jefferson Randolph, silver inventory, c. 1833, ibid.</ref>

	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==

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	'''Artist/Maker:''' Elizabeth Tookey (active c. 1767-1774)<ref>This article is based on Stein, [[Short Title List\|''Worlds'']], 314.</ref>		'''Artist/Maker:''' Elizabeth Tookey (active c. 1767-1774)<ref>This article is based on Stein, [[Short Title List\|''Worlds'']], 314.</ref>

-	'''Created:''' c. 1768	+	'''Created:''' 1768/1769

	'''Origin/Purchase:''' London		'''Origin/Purchase:''' London

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'''Artist/Maker:''' Elizabeth Tookey (active c. 1767-1774)<ref>This article is based on Stein, [[Short Title List|''Worlds'']], 314.</ref>

'''Created:''' c. 1768

'''Origin/Purchase:''' London

'''Materials:''' silver

'''Dimensions:''' L: 21.6 (8 1/2 in.); Total wt: 109.9 g (3 oz. 10 dwt. 16 gr.)

'''Provenance:''' [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]; Yale Univesity Art Gallery, Gift of De Lancey Kountze, B.A. 1899, and Thomas Jefferson Foundation

'''Historical Notes:''' When Thomas Jefferson married the young widow Martha Wayles Skelton in January 1772, she brought to their household a number of items acquired during her first marriage to Bathurst Skelton, 1766-68. On January 18, 1772, Jefferson made a list in his Fee Book, "By sundry European goods on hand at the death of B. Skelton & taken by me." The list mentions many household items, including one silver ladle, one dozen tablespoons, one dozen teaspoons, two pairs "gaderoon [[Tripod Salts|salts]]" with four glass liners and four "salt shovels."<ref>Thomas Jefferson, Fee Book, 1764-1765. Henry E. Huntington Library.</ref>

The surviving silver from the Skelton estate is the work of at least three London silversmiths. Though unmarked, the two [[Salt Spoons|salt spoons]] were probably purchased at the same time and are believed to be part of the same set; the unusual handles might be shaped in the form of an S for Skelton. Silversmith James Tookey made the Onslow pattern [[Soup Ladle|soup ladle]] in 1764/65. The set of [[Teaspoons|teaspoons with spiral gadrooned handles]] also bear his mark, but with no date letter or other hallmarks. They were probably made about 1768 when his wife, Elizabeth Tookey, made this similar set of tablespoons with downturned handles. The silver must have arrived in Virginia shortly before or just after Bathurst Skelton's death in October 1768. They are engraved with the block letters "BMS" for Bathurst and Martha Skelton.

==Footnotes==
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[[Category:Silver]]
[[Category:Objects (Monticello)]]