"Assyrian Head" Pattern Pie Server
date: label: Date
content: 1885–86
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meriden Silver Plate Company, Meriden, Connecticut, 1869–1898
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Spade-shaped blade, decorated with radiating scrolls along edge of bottom half, forming reeded surface on obverse and fluted service on reverse side, and scalloped edge on both. Center of blade decorated with engraved scrolling foliate motif. Narrow neck and stem, decorated with diagonal reeding halfway down handle, meeting setting sun motif above banded section. Stem continues, flaring towards terminal, decorated with scrolling foliate pattern, including sun with scrolling rays. Terminating in crowned antique style "Assyrian" head with laurel surrounding neck. Terminal of slightly rounded rectagular shape, with subtle upturn. Reverse side of handle devoid of ornamentation, with plain polished surface.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Meriden, Connecticut, United States
label: manufactured in
content: United States
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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 Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-148-8
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: silver plated, metal
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 24.8 × 7.5 × 4.5 cm (9 3/4 × 2 15/16 × 1 3/4 in.)