Spoon with Snake and Leaf Terminal
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1890
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Charles Victor Gibert, French
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oval shaped bowl, narrow stem, leading to large triangular leaf-shaped terminal. On reverse side stem of handle continues to form central stem of leaf terminal. Stem adorned with coiled snake tail wrapping around stem and terminating with raised open-jawed snake head hovering above leaf terminal.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-56-51
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: spoon
label: Type
content: spoon
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 18.2 × 3.7 × 3.4 cm (7 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 5/16 in.)