Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Integral construction. Shortened tines and bowl. Four tapering tines. Pattern continues in negative onto the bowl, with panels crossing to form an X at neck, continuing up to the base of the tines. Sloped shoulder, neck tapers inward and widens into elongated handle of swelling oval shape with molded border pattern of four overlapping panels interlocked in v-shape at terminal, with plain center panel on both obverse and reverse sides. On reverse, only outer border present with plain center panel.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Eliel Saarinen, Finnish, 1873–1950
- Manufacturer
- International Silver Company, Meriden, Connecticut, founded 1898
- Date
- ca. 1930
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
- Medium
- silver plated, metal
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 19.3 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm (7 5/8 in. × 1 in. × 9/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- fork
- Type
- fork
