Fork from a Cutlery Set
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1630
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fork with three straight pointed tines, rounded shoulder, tapering baluster-shaped neck and stem. Pistol-shaped horn handle, octagonal in section, piqué with gold wire and inlaid with mother of pearl and green-stained horn in bands of heart-shaped motifs, dots and rozettes. Inlaid rozette at flat end of handle.
place: label: made in
content: Europe
label: possibly made in
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1985-103-35
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: steel, gold, horn, mother of pearl
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 18.2 × 1.6 × 1.3 cm (7 3/16 × 5/8 × 1/2 in.)