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Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly Server
This is a server. It was manufactured by C. V. Gibert. It is dated ca. 1890 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is silver, enamel. 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.
- Cobalt blue Fruit Bowl
- mold and mouth-blown blue-green "sapphire" glass.
- Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor,....
- 2009-18-122
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 24.5 × 9 × 3 cm (9 5/8 × 3 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On interior rim of bowl, stamped: [1] C.V.G. below star inside lozenge (maker's mark for Charles Victor Gilbert) On reverse of neck. stamped: [2] illegible mark (possibly boar head mark indicating .800 fineness)
Cite this object as
Berry Server with Leaf-form Bowl, Red Enameled Strawberries and Dragonfly Server; Manufactured by Charles Victor Gibert (French); France; silver, enamel; L x W x D: 24.5 × 9 × 3 cm (9 5/8 × 3 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds; 1996-56-42
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
