Dessert spoon
Martha Washington's son, John "Jacky" Parke Custis, and his new wife, Eleanor Calvert, assembled an impressive array of imported English silver soon after they married in 1774. It included twenty-four dessert spoons featuring the Custis crest. This is one of six French spoons made at a later date which descended in the family of Jacky's daughter, Nelly Parke Custis Lewis. She likely ordered them to supplement her inherited portion of her parents' eighteenth-century wedding silver.
See also dessert spoons, W-2960/A-E.
Published ReferencesEleanor Parke Custis Lewis, will dated 19 August 1850, Clarke County, Virginia, AA-1, unowned manuscripts, MVLA.