Dessert Fork with Monkey
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 leaf. On reverse side, monkey applied, with head poking through front side surface as if parting and breaking through the leaf. Toes of one foot visible clutching to edge of leaf on front side.
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: 1996-56-22
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: 19.1 × 2.2 × 2 cm (7 1/2 × 7/8 × 13/16 in.)