Small Trident Shaped Serving Fork with Snail
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: Three wide tines with pointed tips, in flared trident shape. At base of tines, mottled rocky or barnacle-like surface, particularly on reverse side. Applied kelp-like vine twisted around handle stem, which is also deocrated with a mottled rockly or barnacle-like surface. Handle widens very slightly to rounded terminal. On reverse side, just above terminal, applied relief sea snail.
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: 1996-56-44
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: 15.9 × 3.6 × 1.6 cm (6 1/4 × 1 7/16 × 5/8 in.)