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Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle Server
This is a server. It was manufactured by C. V. Gibert and retailed by F. Nicoud. 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.
Designed not just for opulent display but also as a functional element in a final dinner course, this dessert service is an example of the expansive, highly specialized sets of cutlery that were considered ceremonially and functionally necessary for the elegant dinner table in late-19th-century Europe and America. This extravagant display of wealth in silverware exhibits the overindulgence attributed to gluttony.
It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds.
- "Assyrian Head" Pattern Pie Server Server
- silver plated, metal.
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
- 1995-148-8
- Nasturtium Leaves Server
- sterling silver.
- Gift of Rosanne Raab Associates.
- 1992-44-1
- Nasturtium Leaves Server
- sterling silver.
- Gift of Rosanne Raab Associates.
- 1992-44-2
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Ice Cream Server with Mother-of-Pearl Handle Server
- gold plated, silver, mother of pearl.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program,....
- 1996-56-80
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 18.2 × 4.2 × 2.5 cm (7 3/16 in. × 1 5/8 in. × 1 in.)
It has the following markings
On corner of head, stamped: [1] C.V.G. below star inside lozenge (maker's mark for Charles Victor Gilbert) Opposite maker's mark on other corner of head, stamped: [2] illegible mark (possibly boar head mark indicating .800 fineness) [3] another possible illegible mark
Cite this object as
Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle Server; Manufactured by Charles Victor Gibert (French); Retailed by F. Nicoud (French, active 1890); France; silver; L x W x D: 18.2 × 4.2 × 2.5 cm (7 3/16 in. × 1 5/8 in. × 1 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds; 1996-56-49
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions The Virtue in Vice and Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
