"Assyrian Head" Pattern Fish Serving Fork
date: label: Date
content: 1885–86
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898
label: Designer
content: Rogers Brothers Silver, Hartford and Meriden, Connecticut, 1847 - 1862
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fork with four tapering tines, with rounded notch in slot between central tines. Tines forming curved bowl. Bowl below root decorated with radiating scrolls, forming reeded surface on obverse and fluted service on reverse side, and scalloped edge on both. 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: made in
content: Merriden, Connecticut, 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: Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-79-2
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 plated, metal
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 23 × 5.6 × 3.3 cm (9 1/16 × 2 3/16 × 1 5/16 in.)