Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1890
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Charles Victor Gibert, French
label: Retailer
content: François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Spade shaped server with flat square head with beveled edge. Thin handle decorated with bark-like texture, terminating in triangular shape like that of a spade handle with ferocious growling cat poking it's head through open space and paws clinging to handle. Just below cat, slug applied to handle.
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: 1996-56-49
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
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 18.2 × 4.2 × 2.5 cm (7 3/16 in. × 1 5/8 in. × 1 in.)