Vintage Shaker Kitchen Pantry Dipper - Large Maple Wood - Mount Lebanon Community (19th C)

Antiques : Shaker : Kitchen : Pantry : Dipper

 

Vintage authentic Shaker hand-crafted moulded maple dipper with turned handle with pine bottom. Hand molded maple vessel fastened together with copper brads measures 7-1/4 " in diameter x 4-1/2 " high. This large dipper and handle measure 14" to the tip of the handle.

Dippers were used to measure dry products. Making dippers was a Shaker craft similar to oval box-making. Both processes involved a meticulous soaking or steaming of strips of wood until it was flexible enough to bend around a mold.

Came from a private Boston collection sold at auction in New Lebanon, NY in 2002. It still has its natural finish. A very lovely piece.

Item ID: 42-0202