Small Fork with Fluted Ivory Handle
date: label: Date
content: 1829
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Joseph Willmore
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three tined fork with curving up to sharp edged shoulder. Baluster shaped neck, meeting banded ferrule at join of ivory handle. Rectangular, tapering, ivory handle. On both obverse and reverse, carved with central reeded panel, with perpendicular reeding on sides. Horizontal banded section breaking stem from terminal. terminating in tiered radiating diagonal reeding fanning out to corners of terminal.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Birmingham, United Kingdom
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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: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morrill
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1990-21-1
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: ivory, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 12.8 × 1.5 × 0.9 cm (5 1/16 × 9/16 × 3/8 in.)