Fork
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large two-tined fork, tines curved and pointed. Bolster rectangular in section, deeply cut. Tang with button end. Handle eight-sided. Brass scales on major plane engraved with wriggle work; four sides of bone; two tang sides. Handle end with 22 laminated sections of tri-color horn and brass plates. Plain brass end.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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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: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1985-103-10
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Fork
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: steel, brass, horn, bone
label: Dimensions
content: L x W: 32.3 x 4.5 cm (12 11/16 x 1 3/4 in.)