This beautiful pair of spoons from Norwegian tradition is a real rarity. Two identical large spoons, entirely handmade and decorated with typical wedding motifs. The spoons are "chained" together, meaning a lifelong marriage. 

Some characters hidden in the motifs: 

Heart-anchor-cross for love-hope-faith, 

Garden tools with a bundle of grain for successful work and prosperity, 

Bull head for strong and resilient marriage, etc. 

The spoons come from a renowned Norwegian company Silversmith Henrik Møller from Trondheim around ca. 1900, who was known for his preference for traditional Viking motifs. 

Henrik Moller belonged to the fourth generation of a goldsmith family that settled in Trondheim in 1770. At the age of 14. Years ago he began training as a goldsmith in the workshop of his mother, Jacob A. Møller's widow. In the late 1870s, Møller learned chasing from the Danish goldsmith Bernhard Hertz in Copenhagen. At the Royal Danish Academy of Art in the evenings he studied, among other things, model making and drawing. In 1879 he passed his journeyman's examination in Copenhagen. From here he went to Vienna for further studies and also spent 1½ years in New York before returning to Trondheim in 1884, where he worked as a silversmith, chaser and model maker. Until the 1930s, Møller's work was characterized by his romantic enthusiasm for the kite style of the late 19th century. century. Based on his drawings, he created imaginative works featuring dragons and other legendary animals inspired by Norse mythology. For Møller, the dragons symbolized the fight against evil. From 1900 until the First World War he ran the Henrik Møllers Metalvarefabrik in Elgeseter, a district of Trondheim, which in 1902 employed up to 50 workers and produced numerous products such as door handles, furniture fittings, chandeliers and ship lamps. In 1906, Møller supplied metal ornaments for the then new church in the Lademoen district of Trondheim. Examples of Møller's art can be found in Oslo's Kunstindustrimuseet and Trondheim's Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum. Henrik Møller received the Norwegian King's Medal of Merit in gold (Kongens fortjenstmedalje i gull) in 1922 and became an honorary member of the Norwegian Goldsmiths' Association in 1932.