Foliate Handle Continental Silver Sugar Basin

• Finial - An architectural decoration, found on the upper parts of of an object. On furniture they are usually found on pediments, canopies and shelf supports. On smaller ceramic or silver items, such as spoons, they may decorate the top of the item itself, or the lid or cover where they provide a useful handle for removal.
  
  Finials have a variety of shapes and forms. They may be urn-shaped, baluster shaped round or spiral, but usually taper into an upper point. Many real life shapes may also be used as finials, such as pineapples, berries, pinecones, buds, lotus and acorns. Sometimes animals such as a lion are depicted, or fish and dolphins.
• Marrow Spoon - A spoon with a long handle and a narrow scoop shaped bowl, used to scoop and eat marrow from the hollow centre of roasted bones. Some marrow scoops are double ended with a different shaped bowl at each end.
• Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
• Oviform /ovoid - The outline loosely resembling the shape of an egg.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• silver, country of manufacture - Continental 498
• spoons, silver
  • other, various types and periods 1,209
  • sifter / caster (pierced bowl) 119
• sugar bowls - silver items 118