Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Two long pointed tines, curved shoulders and baluster-shaped neck. Plain silver ferrule. Ivory handle carved in deep relief; three putti, one of them kneeling on the ground, the other two climbing on his shoulders.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1650–1700
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- ivory, steel, silver
- Dimensions
- L x W: 20.8 x 2.5 cm (8 3/16 x 1 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Fork
