Fork
date: label: Date
content: 1680–1700
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two strongly curved tines, pointing outwards, long baluster-shaped neck. Plain silver ferrule, oval in section. Carved ivory handle: two women in costume, one holding a bird in one hand, the other hand resting on the anchor in front of her (Hope), her bare leg partly visible, her foot resting on the lower part of the anchor. The other woman standing behind her, holding a cross in one hand and a Bible in the other hand (Faith). She also has one leg partly visible.
place: label: made in
content: Netherlands
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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: 1985-103-166
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Fork
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ivory, steel, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W: 20.9 x 2.9 cm (8 1/4 x 1 1/8 in.)