Chrysanthemum Pattern Oyster Fork
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
name: label: Designer
content: Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888
label: Manufacturer
content: Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three short tines, widely spaced, forming curved bowl. Tapered neck, widening to silver handle of curving, ungulating shape, covered in a relief pattern of overlapping foliate scrolls and chrysanthemum buds, with engraved "B" in the central reserve in terminal. Rounded terminal, topped with chrysanthemum flower. Reverse side densley decorated with overlapping foliate scrolls and chrysanthemum buds.
place: label: manufactured in
content: New York, USA
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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: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-61-44-a
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
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 15.7 × 2 × 1 cm (6 3/16 × 13/16 × 3/8 in.)