Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Charles Victor Gibert, French
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Rounded deep bowl with pierced openwork covering interior in concentric circles in the shape of a spider web. Large long leaves fan out from neck overlapping pierced decoration. On neck, relief monkey applied as if sitting perched. Handle formed and decorated in bamboo-shape with occassional knobs and horizontal breaks. Handle widening slightly towards rounded terminal, which is covered in knobbed decoration.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds
- ca. 1890
- Accession Number
- 1996-56-41
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- sifter
- Type
- sifter
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 20.7 × 6.9 × 4 cm (8 1/8 × 2 11/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1996-56-41
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ede33698-2236-4c9c-ab9f-62e82e3508f4
