Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Integral construction. Four tines, bowl with sloped shoulders and engraved with stylized u-shaped line decoration. Long tapering handle, with flaring terminal. Terminal decorated with relief decoration of two abstract lobular forms. On reverse side of tines, angular shelf from at base of bowl, creating rest. Reverse side of neck engraved with three concentric ovals, with two thin lines extending down on either side.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Joseph Maria Olbrich, Austrian, 1867 – 1908
- Manufacturer
- Christofle, French, founded 1830
- Date
- 1901
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Christie's in honor of Joseph Holtzman
- Medium
- silver plated, metal
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 22 × 2.6 × 2 cm (8 11/16 in. × 1 in. × 13/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- fork
- Type
- fork
