Oyster Fork, "Owl Pattern"

Artist:1847 Rogers Brothers

Medium: Silver-plate

Geograhical Locations:

• Meriden, Connecticut, United States

Dates:ca. 1885

Dimensions: 6 1/16 x 5/8 x 7/16 in. (15.4 x 1.7 x 1.1 cm)

Collections:

• Decorative Arts and Design

Accession Number: 1991.144.3

Catalogue Description:
Oyster fork with standard three tines, proper right notched. Thin neck leads to squared, twisted midsection. Handle flares at last third to flattened top and rounded shoulders, decorated with abstract symmetrical floral motif, and four superimposed, graduated abstracted feathers and frontal faced owl at crest on a stippled ground. Back is undecorated.

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