Dessert Fork with Bee
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: Four tined fork with thin tines. Plain narrow stem, continues to form hierarchically lobed leaf turning downwards at terminal. Gold-plated bee or wasp applied perching on base of leaf with wings extended outwards horizontally.
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: 1996-56-2
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: gold plated, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 18.3 × 2.9 × 2.5 cm (7 3/16 in. × 1 1/8 in. × 1 in.)