Table Spoon
Barent Ten Eyck
1740–50
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
L. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
Classification
Spoon
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1940
Accession Number
40.34
About the Artist
Barent Ten Eyck · 1714–1795
**Barent Ten Eyck (1714–1795)** Barent C. Ten Eyck was born in September 1714 in Albany, New York, and baptized on October 3, the son of prominent silversmith Coenraedt Ten Eyck and Gerritje Van Schaick. Growing up in a bustling household in Albany's second ward amid a large family of ten children, including future silversmith Jacob Coenraedt Ten Eyck, Barent immersed himself in the family trade ...