Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Three-tined gilded fork, flaring at the join. Waisted shoulder, flat baluster-shaped neck. Banded ferrule. Irregular shaped white porcelain handle with polychrome decoration. On the front a woman with a basket, on the back a boy on a hobby-horse drinking from a glass, both boy and girl standing in from of a tree. Floral decoration at the top of the handle.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 18th century
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- gold plated, silver; porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 18.9 × 2.1 × 1.9 cm (7 7/16 × 13/16 × 3/4 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- fork
- Type
- fork
