Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Two-tined silver fork with leaf and stem-like handle. Two crayfish or crab claw-shaped tines, with bolbous barnacle like round bead mid-way down left tine. At root of tines, two ginkgo-like leaves portruding from right side. Surface of leaves decorated with vertical v-shaped ridges. Narrow vine-like neck continues into stem with bolbous barnacle sphere attached on underside, used to steady handle when laying flat. Handle continues curving towards terminal, splitting into vine-like tendrils curving up towards the right side.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Claude Lalanne, French, 1924 - 2019
- Date
- 1966
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund in honor of John L. Marion
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 18.5 × 3.8 × 2.8 cm (7 5/16 × 1 1/2 × 1 1/8 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- fork
- Type
- fork
