Oyster Fork, "Daisy Pattern"
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
MEDIUM
Silver-plate
DATES
ca. 1885
DIMENSIONS
6 1/16 x 5/8 x 13/32 in. (15.4 x 1.6 x 1.0 cm)
MARKINGS
1847 ROGERS BROS. A1 *
ACCESSION NUMBER
1991.144.5
CREDIT LINE
Purchased with funds given by Mary Dutton Boehm
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Oyster fork with three tines, proper right tine notched. Thin undecorated handle flares at midpoint to gently curved crest, decorated with graduating, alternating, inward curving abstracted fronds, and open five petal flower with asymmetrical curving tendrils. Back is undecorated.
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