Millennium Canteen
Keith Tyssen - Serving Spoon and Teaspoon
Serving Spoon (top) and Teaspoon
Teaspoon: Sterling Silver and natural shell stitched together by a 'noble' yellow metal.
"My designs are a personal comment on the evolution of The Spoon - from Stone Age man's most elementary use of an empty shell for scooping up the broth of a memorable dish of Moules a la Mariniere - thence by evolving a simple way of binding a shell onto a short stick the better for keeping the fingers out of a chilled watercress soup and so as not to grease-up the glass of a fine Chardonnay!
Some of the most elegant of early metal spoons (surviving mostly in bronze from 2000 years ago) reached their watershed or perhaps more appositely 'hot spring waters' shed during Roman times.
During an early part of our own century, cutlery makers profited by their sharing of elegantly formalised 'common' designs such as 'Old English', the 'Kings Pattern' and my personal favourite the 'Fiddle Pattern'.
The spoon is surely one of man's earliest and most useful tools. It has travelled how many millennia in its subsequent development until thus becoming a 'classic', a comforting stylised 'parish' pattern and ubiquitous within our 20th century way of life.
My spoons for the Millennium Canteen are rooted in such things."
Sizes: 31 and 14 cms
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