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Fork (England or United States)
This is a fork. It is dated ca. 1880 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is silver plated, metal, celluloid. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Implements of Eating" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"By the second half of the nineteenth century, both individual fish knives and forks were provided at formal dinners. Fish forks, somewhat more rounded than standard dinner forks, were less likely to tear the fish apart. Fish knives were blunt, or, in the late nineteenth cenutyr, scimiatar-shaped - unlike the standard steel-bladed dinner knives that could hold a sharp edge - because they needed to lift the fish rather than slice through it. They were fashioned of silver, including the blades, to avoid transferring a metallic taste (figs, 45, 46)."
It is credited Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 25.7 × 5.3 × 2.3 cm (10 1/8 × 2 1/16 × 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Fork (England or United States); silver plated, metal, celluloid; L x W x D: 25.7 × 5.3 × 2.3 cm (10 1/8 × 2 1/16 × 7/8 in.); Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund; 1996-80-2
