Object Details
- Description
- A pair of place settings. The group of cutlery exemplify have raised geometric lines delineating the handles that terminate in the architect’s monogram, with the letters “JO” created from intersecting whiplash lines.
- 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 (small fork a): 18.4 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm (7 1/4 × 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
- L x W x D (small fork b): 18.4 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm (7 1/4 × 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
- L x W x D (large fork a): 22.2 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm (8 3/4 in. × 1 in. × 3/4 in.)
- L x W x D (large fork b): 22.2 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm (8 3/4 in. × 1 in. × 3/4 in.)
- L x W x D (large knife a): 25.4 × 2.2 × 1 cm (10 in. × 7/8 in. × 3/8 in.)
- L x W x D (large knife b): 25.4 × 2.2 × 1 cm (10 in. × 7/8 in. × 3/8 in.)
- L x W x D (small knife a): 21.6 × 1.9 × 0.6 cm (8 1/2
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- fork
- Type
- fork
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