Object Details
- Description
- Each piece has raised geometric lines delineating the handles that terminate in the architect’s monogram, with the letters “JO” created from intersecting whiplash lines. The bowls of each are decorated with a constellation of stamped square forms, while the edges of the bowls are elegantly tapered with swirling circular motifs.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Joseph Maria Olbrich, Austrian, 1867 – 1908
- Manufacturer
- Clarfeld & Springmeyer, Germany, founded 1858
- Date
- 1901
- Credit Line
- Gift of Andrew Van Styn from the estate of Don Magner
- Medium
- metal, silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D (spoon): 22.9 × 5.1 × 3.2 cm (9 in. × 2 in. × 1 1/4 in.)
- L x W x D (fork): 22.5 × 5.1 × 3.2 cm (8 7/8 in. × 2 in. × 1 1/4 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- spoon
- Type
- spoon
