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Sugar Sifter with Spider Web-Shaped Bowl and Monkey

Cooper Hewitt

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    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

    Date

    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

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Product Design and Decorative Arts Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ede33698-2236-4c9c-ab9f-62e82e3508f4

    Record ID

    chndm_1996-56-41

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