fork
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large fish serving fork with five short tapering tines, connecting to bowl decorated with pierced overlapping scrolling foliate and tulip pattern, surrounded by engraved scalloped line border. Reverse side lacks engraved decoration surrounding pierced pattern. Silver ferrule decorated with scrolling vine and floral pattern on stippled ground, connecting to ivory handle. Terminal of rounded fan-shape and decorated with dense floral pattern.
place: label: possibly made in
content: England or USA
setName: label: See more items in
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 Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-80-2
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: fork
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver plated, metal, celluloid
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 25.7 × 5.3 × 2.3 cm (10 1/8 × 2 1/16 × 7/8 in.)