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Ice Cream Server with Mother-of-Pearl Handle Server
This is a server. It was designed by F. Nicoud. It is dated ca. 1890 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is gold plated, silver, mother of pearl. 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
- Spade Shaped Server with Slug and Cat Handle Server
- silver.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program,....
- 1996-56-49
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 24.4 × 6.8 × 2.1 cm (9 5/8 × 2 11/16 × 13/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Ice Cream Server with Mother-of-Pearl Handle Server; Designed by F. Nicoud (French, active 1890); France; gold plated, silver, mother of pearl; L x W x D: 24.4 × 6.8 × 2.1 cm (9 5/8 × 2 11/16 × 13/16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds; 1996-56-80
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.
