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Dessert Fork with Monkey Fork
This is a fork. It was manufactured by C. V. Gibert. It is dated ca. 1890 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Designed not just for opulent display but also as a functional element in a final dinner course, this dessert service is an example of the expansive, highly specialized sets of cutlery that were considered ceremonially and functionally necessary for the elegant dinner table in late-19th-century Europe and America. This extravagant display of wealth in silverware exhibits the overindulgence attributed to gluttony.
It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds.
- Dessert Spoon with Centipede on Handle Spoon, ca. 1890
- silver.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program,....
- 1996-56-13
- Monkey Figure, 1930–40
- porcelain, enamel.
- The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
- 1989-41-131
- Seated Monkey Matchsafe
- patinated brass, glass.
- Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
- 1980-14-876
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 19.1 × 2.2 × 2 cm (7 1/2 × 7/8 × 13/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On base of tines, stamped: [1] C.V.G. below star inside lozenge (maker's mark for Charles Victor Gilbert) [2] illegible mark (possibly board head mark indicating .800 fineness) On reverse of neck, stamped: [3] 22 [4] illegible mark (possibly board head mark indicating .800 fineness)
Cite this object as
Dessert Fork with Monkey Fork; Manufactured by Charles Victor Gibert (French); France; silver; L x W x D: 19.1 × 2.2 × 2 cm (7 1/2 × 7/8 × 13/16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds; 1996-56-22
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions The Virtue in Vice and Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
