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Fork with Spiral Pattern Handle Fork
This is a fork. It is dated ca. 1760 and we acquired it in 1985. Its medium is steel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Historical Overview" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"Not surprisingly, with Hanoverian monarchs in England, a visual connection in teh flatware between the German states and England is evident. Both favored the ergonomically successful pistol grip for knives and some steel-tined forkes (fig. 57) in the second and part of the third quarter of the eighteenth century, although England did so more pronouncedly. Both had good stell production, encouraging quality cutlery. The scimitar-shaped cutler's marks and blades made in London and in Solingen, Germany, were similar, as were their handles, particularly in the use of porcelian and beadwork. In London, Bohemian imported handles may have been combined by the cutler with English blades."
This object was
donated by
Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
It is credited The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 19.3 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm (7 5/8 in. × 1 in. × 13/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Fork with Spiral Pattern Handle Fork; steel; L x W x D: 19.3 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm (7 5/8 in. × 1 in. × 13/16 in.); The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg; 1985-103-18
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
