Fork with Porcelain Handle (with Knife and Spoon)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1730
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four-tined fork, tines slightly curved and tapering towards the point. Gilded join and baluster-shaped neck decorated with scallops, scrolls and stylized lion's head on the back of the join. Gilded ferrule ribbed, round in section. Tapering white porcelain handle with multi-color decoration of flowers and birds, and two scenes surrounded with gilded scrolled decoration: on the front, a harbor scene with two men raising their glass, on the back a landscape with a lady and a small girl holding a doll.
place: label: Place
content: Germany
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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: 1985-103-186
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: porcelain, vitreous enamel, silver, gold
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 20.6 × 2.4 × 2 cm (8 1/8 × 15/16 × 13/16 in.)