Dessert Spoon with Lizard and Moth
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: Oval bowl with plain narrow stem. Stem continues to form lyrate leaf handle, with terminal turning downwards. Lizard applied crawling on leaf and twisting around stem and base of leaf with tail curling around stem towards bowl. Gold-plated moth perched on very end of leaf terminal, with missing antenna.
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: 1996-56-7
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: spoon
label: Type
content: spoon
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: gold plated, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 19.4 × 3.8 × 3 cm (7 5/8 × 1 1/2 × 1 3/16 in.)