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Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle Spoon
This is a spoon. It was manufactured by C. V. Gibert. It is dated ca. 1890 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is 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.
- Vase with Bees and Flowers Vase
- silver, gold, amber, garnet, blue paua abalone shell.
- Gift of Michael Izrael Galmer.
- 2015-38-1
- Evening Purse Purse
- silver, gold.
- Gift of Michael Izrael Galmer.
- 2015-38-2
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 21.5 × 4.9 × 3.8 cm (8 7/16 × 1 15/16 × 1 1/2 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) Opposite maker's mark on interior rim of bowl, stamped: [2] illegible mark (possibly boar head mark indicating .800 fineness) On reverse of neck. stamped: [3] another possible illegible mark
Cite this object as
Serving Spoon with Twig and Lizard Handle Spoon; Manufactured by Charles Victor Gibert (French); France; silver; L x W x D: 21.5 × 4.9 × 3.8 cm (8 7/16 × 1 15/16 × 1 1/2 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds; 1996-56-43
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
