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Dessert Fork with Gold Plated Honeybee on Handle Fork
This is a fork. It was manufactured by C. V. Gibert. It is dated ca. 1890 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is gold plated, silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 18.2 × 2.4 × 2.5 cm (7 3/16 in. × 15/16 in. × 1 in.)
It has the following markings
On base of tines, stamped: [1] C.V.G. below star inside lozenge (maker's mark for Charles Victor Gilbert) [2] illegible mark (possibly board head mark indicating .800 fineness) On reverse of neck, stamped: [3] 18 [4] illegible mark (possibly board head mark indicating .800 fineness)
Cite this object as
Dessert Fork with Gold Plated Honeybee on Handle Fork; Manufactured by Charles Victor Gibert (French); France; gold plated, silver; L x W x D: 18.2 × 2.4 × 2.5 cm (7 3/16 in. × 15/16 in. × 1 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds; 1996-56-18
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
