Collections: Decorative Arts: Dinner Fork, Lorne Pattern

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Dinner Fork, Lorne Pattern

• Maker: 1847 Rogers Brothers
• Medium: Silverplate
• Place Manufactured: Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
• Dates: ca. 1878
• Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 15/16 x 7/8 in. (19.1 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm)
• Markings: Stamped on back: "(star) ROGERS & BRO.A1"
• Signature: no signature
• Inscriptions: no inscriptions
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 88.112.8
• Credit Line: Gift of Robert Tuggle
• Image: Overall, 88.112.8_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2008
1847 Rogers Brothers. Dinner Fork, Lorne Pattern, ca. 1878. Silverplate, 7 1/2 x 15/16 x 7/8 in. (19.1 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Robert Tuggle, 88.112.8 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 88.112.8_PS2.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Dinner fork with four straight tines. First inch of handle is undecorated. The decoration begins with a small molded triangle then a narrow band of ovals and dots surrounded by narrow horizontal bands above and below. Then a broader band of elongated ovals and then more narrow horizontal lines. Next is a band with short diagonal of three dots and then more narrow bands. Next is a one-inch long area with an asymmetric floral design with three full-face flowers, stems, leaves and buds. This is surmounted by a band of five horizontal florets above which is a central floret topped by an anthemion-like motif between symmetric scrolls and fluting that trails out and up towards the curved end of the handle creating a large blank reserve that continues with no decoration to the end of the handle. The reverse is blank. Lorne Pattern. Condition: Good; some loss on heel and to sides of tines on bottom. Normal wear; some scratches.