Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1690
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Folding Fork and Spoon Bowl. Fork (a) has three curved tines, flat tapering handle widening towards bowl-shaped terminal, scrolled shoulders. Hinged at neck, with faceted sliding lock bar. Handle decorated with engraved foliate pattern within central reserve with plain wide border. Reverse of bowl terminal decorated with engraved flower. Oval spoon bowl (b), engraved on back with symmetrical floral design. Two wide slots on the reverse side to insert tines of the fork when attached, with fork handle serving as spoon handle when attached.
place: label: made in
content: Probably Augsburg, 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: 1985-103-77-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: fork and spoon bowl
label: Type
content: fork and spoon bowl
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((a) fork and (b) spoon bowl, open): 17.4 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm (6 7/8 × 1 3/4 × 1 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((a) fork and (b) spoon bowl, closed): 9.8 × 4.5 × 3 cm (3 7/8 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((a) fork, open): 15.5 × 2 × 1.2 cm (6 1/8 × 13/16 × 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((a) fork, closed): 9.6 × 2 × 2 cm (3 3/4 × 13/16 × 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((b) spoon bowl): 6.5 × 4.5 × 1.7 cm (2 9/16 × 1 3/4 × 11/16 in.)