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Sucket Fork
This is a Sucket fork. It is dated ca. 1840–45 and we acquired it in 1985. Its medium is silver, wood. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Implements of eating" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
" These sucket forks, used almost 200 years before dinner forks came into commonuse in England during the Restoration, were favored for the green ginger preserves that the Elizabethans so loved (fig. 6). They continued to find favor across the ocean in seventeenth century America, especially among women."
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: 25.4 × 1.7 cm (10 in. × 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On cap near stem; Austrian mark of 19th c. Tardy, SILVER, p.74
It is inscribed
Engraving on cap mark cuts through mark, probably 19th century piece.
Cite this object as
Sucket Fork; silver, wood; L x W: 25.4 × 1.7 cm (10 in. × 11/16 in.); The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg; 1985-103-33
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
