Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Four-tined fork with curved shoulders. Baluster-shaped neck, octagonal silver ferrule with scalloped edge. Agate handle, surface decorated with fluting to form octagonal shape in section. On cutting edge side of handle, two ridges carved in to agate, as rests. Handle tapering up from wide terminal towards the join with blade.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1750
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- silver, agate
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 19.5 × 2.2 × 2 cm (7 11/16 × 7/8 × 13/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- fork
- Type
- fork
