Dinner Fork
Decorative Arts and Design
MAKER
1847 Rogers Brothers
MEDIUM
Silver-plate
DATES
ca. 1875
DIMENSIONS
7 1/2 x 1 in. (19.1 x 2.5 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
on back of stem: 1847 ROGERS BROS XII (indistinguishable circular mark).
SIGNATURE
Unsigned
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
87.223.4
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Liberman
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Four-tined dinner fork, silverplate with sloping shoulders, plain straight stem to midband; above midband handle flares outward broadly to double-arched crest containing semi-sunburst. Handle has abstract decoration in compartments. the decoration comprises, from bottom to top, a branch of flowers; diamond lozenges; monogram H in script; rondel enclosing stylized blossoms. Back of handle similarly decorated but lacking lower three compartments, Laurel Pattern.
CONDITION: Normal wear.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
1847 Rogers Brothers. Dinner Fork, ca. 1875. Silver-plate, 7 1/2 x 1 in. (19.1 x 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Liberman, 87.223.4. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.87.223.4.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.87.223.4.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2010
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