Pair of Cake Tongs With Caterpillar
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: Pair of cake tongs consisting of separatable sides, with side (a) tong with applied relief caterpillar decoration and side (b) tong with openwork leaf decoration. Tongs formed in shape of leaves, with rounded elongated teardrop shape forming jaws. Attached by (a) fitting in to (b) tong at neck to form pivot mechanism. Side (a) tong with leaf decoration and mottled surface, reverse of which is applied with relief caterpillar ornament. Side (b) tong surface of openwork design with skeletal structure of leaf visible. Handle with two round finger holes.
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: 1996-56-39-a,b
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 ((a and b, assembled and closed)): 26.3 × 6 × 4.7 cm (10 3/8 × 2 3/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((a) tong): 25.9 × 4.1 × 3.1 cm (10 3/16 × 1 5/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((b) tong): 26.3 × 4.7 × 3.2 cm (10 3/8 × 1 7/8 × 1 1/4 in.)