Oyster Fork, "Game Pattern"
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
MEDIUM
Silver-plate
DATES
ca. 1885
DIMENSIONS
6 x 5/8 x 7/16 in. (15.2 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm)
MARKINGS
WM.ROGERS&SON AA. [engraved] LAWLER'S
ACCESSION NUMBER
1991.144.4
CREDIT LINE
Purchased with funds given by Mary Dutton Boehm
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Oyster fork with three tines, outer tines curved and center tine notched with a scalloped shoulder. Long undecorated neck to handle that flares at midpoint to gently curved end. Dense decoration of four molded fruits and leaves and large frontal bird superimposed on two others with raised conforming ring of beads at crest. Back is undecorated.
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