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Design for a Fork and Two Spoons
late 16th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Sheet shows three pieces of cutlery: a four-tined fork topped a female herm figure at left, a spoon with a scallop shaped bowl topped with a female herm figure with wings at right, and at center, an inverted spoon, also with a scalloped bowl and a satyr herm figure.
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Details
- Title: Design for a Fork and Two Spoons
- Date Created: late 16th century
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk or charcoal on off-white laid paper, lined
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
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