Silver spoon

 This idiom sums up the privilege of the Stately home and relates to Byron's tea pot and also the sugar trade so I'd like to incorporate this somehow.

Either within the willow pattern design or physically using antique spoons. I'm thinking of a hanging sculpture with spoons and sugar cubes and maybe the doves from the willow pattern made from ceramics.

Maybe that could be a mobile for a baby's crib to symbolise being born into wealth.Or maybe the whole of the Abbey on a silver spoon to be consumed as it is now as a commercial enterprise.

 How we are spoon fed certain versions of history.

I like the idea of the commemorative spoon, but changing the events that they commemorate to personal,tragic or mundane events. 

A silver spoon means privilege but to play the spoons is associated with folk musicians, working class and historically evolved from playing bones, as a battle cry. The duality of this object between the privileged and the poor interests me.

 I'm referencing this work by Cornilea parks. titled" 30 pieces of silver" as her work really resonates with me and I love how she transforms an objects meaning, often holding them in suspension and creating an impossible spectacle. Here she is working with silver, as a symbol for the 30 silver coins Judas received for betraying Jesus. I like what she says about the commemorative quality of silver and how she talks about flattening silver coins on a railway track. Making them worthless as currency but increasing the value or interest as them as an object.

EDIT: I didn't pursue the silver spoon idea, however,inspired by parks , with my series of plates I have attempted to transform an objects meaning by adding my gold illustrations. Also using her work as a starting point for thinking about materials, precious metals, what they represent to us, silver is commemorative where as gold is wealth. silver is second, gold is first.