Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Integral construction. Pointed oval bowl with rounded point. Bowl with sloped shoulders and neck engraved with stylized u-shaped line decoration. Long tapering handle, with flaring terminal. Terminal decorated with relief decoration of two abstract lobular forms. Reverse of neck flattened, leading in to stem.
- 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: 22.7 × 5 × 3.4 cm (8 15/16 × 1 15/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- spoon
- Type
- spoon
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