Fork with Fluted Agate Handle
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four-tined fork with curved shoulders. Baluster-shaped neck, octagonal silver ferrule with scalloped edge. Agate handle, surface decorated with fluting to form octagonal shape in section. On cutting edge side of handle, two ridges carved in to agate, as rests. Handle tapering up from wide terminal towards the join with blade.
place: label: made in
content: probably Netherlands
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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: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1985-103-118-c
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: fork
label: Type
content: fork
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver, agate
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 19.5 × 2.2 × 2 cm (7 11/16 × 7/8 × 13/16 in.)