Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey
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: Rounded deep bowl with pierced openwork covering interior in concentric circles in the shape of a spider web. Large long leaves fan out from neck overlapping pierced decoration. On neck, relief monkey applied as if sitting perched. Handle formed and decorated in bamboo-shape with occassional knobs and horizontal breaks. Handle widening slightly towards rounded terminal, which is covered in knobbed decoration.
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: 1996-56-41
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: sifter
label: Type
content: sifter
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 20.7 × 6.9 × 4 cm (8 1/8 × 2 11/16 × 1 9/16 in.)