Small Serving Fork with Tines Skewering Fish
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: Two tined fork. Tines flaring outwards to pointed tip. At base of tines, reilief fish applied to tines on both obverse and reverse sides perpendicular to tines to appear skewered on tines. At neck, series of applied thin horizontal lines that mimic fishing line. Handle with fluted decoration, widening towards terminal. Terminal wrapped in acanthus leaf decoration and topped with ball finial.
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: 1996-56-45
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: 16.2 × 4.3 × 1.9 cm (6 3/8 × 1 11/16 × 3/4 in.)