Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Four tines with outer two curving outwards to form scrolling tip, and center two shorter pointed tines. Bowl formed as diamond with intesected diamond cut-out in center and outlined by diamond-shaped double row of stippling on obverse, plain surface on reverse. Join with three horizontal bands, straight shaft, with three horizontal bands, widening to form handle with three horizontal bands before pentagonal terminal with pointed end with double outline of stippling.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- J. M. van Kempen and Sons, founded 1835
- Date
- ca. 1905–10
- Credit Line
- Gift of Justin G. Schiller
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 13 × 2.8 × 1.3 cm (5 1/8 × 1 1/8 × 1/2 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- fork
- Type
- fork
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