"Assyrian Head" Pattern Sugar Tongs
date: label: Date
content: 1885–86
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898
label: Designer
content: Rogers Brothers Silver, Hartford and Meriden, Connecticut, 1847 - 1862
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Tongs with two arms, each topped with three-tined claw or chicken foot-shaped head. Tines decorated with horizontal hatched bands, leading to fanning horizontal fluting towards neck. Narrow neck and stem, decorated with diagonal reeding halfway down handle, meeting setting sun motif above banded section. Stem continues, flaring towards terminal, decorated with scrolling foliate pattern, including sun with scrolling rays. Terminating in crowned antique style "Assyrian" head with laurel surrounding neck. Curved end connecting arms, plain polished surface, with thin plain border on both top and bottom. Interior of arms devoid of ornamentation, with plain polished surface.
place: label: made in
content: Meriden, Connecticut, USA
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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 Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-79-6
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: tongs
label: Type
content: tongs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver plated, metal
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 16 × 4.5 × 2 cm (6 5/16 × 1 3/4 × 13/16 in.)