Salad Serving Fork with Pentagonal Terminal
date: label: Date
content: 1910–14
name: label: Designer
content: Clara Barck Welles, American, 1868– 1965
label: Manufacturer
content: The Kalo Shop, 1900–1970
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Part of a pair of salad servers. Fork has leaf-shaped bowl with point pierced to form three short, wide tines. Below tines, two curving pierced slots in elongated cross-like shape. At base of bowl on either side of join, edge flattens to form slight curved protrusions. Bowl and handle of integral construction. Handle stemming from narrow neck, widening towards flat, stepped, pentagonal terminal with applied interlocking monogram 'PN.' Hammered finish present allover surface.
place: label: made in
content: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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: Gift of Pillsbury Michel Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2008-15-1
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: silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 25.7 × 6.9 × 3.7 cm (10 1/8 × 2 11/16 × 1 7/16 in.)