Ice Cream Server with Mother-of-Pearl Handle
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1890
name: label: Designer
content: François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rounded shallow scoop with beveled edge, with right side with cut out swirling shape, creating pointed tip. Surface adorned with engraved decoration, of swirling form stemming from central drafon head motif and swirling outwards with vine like foliate deocration, until terminating in peacock like bird with oversized talons extending towards neck. Diamond shaped neck adorned with floral cartouche. Engraved decoration gold plated while surrounding background in silver. Reverse side of bowl devoid of decoration. Banded gold plated ferrule leads to mother of pearl handle, decorated with carved diagonal fluting, slightly widenning to rounded terminal.
place: label: made 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: 1996-56-80
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: server
label: Type
content: server
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: gold plated, silver, mother of pearl
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 24.4 × 6.8 × 2.1 cm (9 5/8 × 2 11/16 × 13/16 in.)