Sugar Tongs with Claw Feet
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: Tongs with oval finger loops, supported by foliate scrolls, which meet at round swivel mechanism, decorated with applied floral bloom. Arms of tongs modeled in the style of chicken legs and terminating in chicken feet with talons.
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: 1996-56-37
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: tongs
label: Type
content: tongs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D (closed): 14.7 × 5.8 × 2 cm (5 13/16 × 2 5/16 × 13/16 in.)