A BRASS INLAID WROUGHT IRON ROASTING FORK

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A BRASS INLAID WROUGHT IRON ROASTING FORK
POSSIBLY PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1819

Two tined fork with flat shaped handle tapering to hanging hook, the handle inlaid in brass with a flowering tulip flanked by the initials "J.S." above the date "1819," the lower handle inlaid with the initials "M.L."--19¼in. long

拍品專文

Cooking utensils such as roasting forks were traditional and popular gifts to newlywed daughters. The fine inlaid decoration and the double set of initials on this fork may indicate that it was made for such an occasion. Related examples are in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and are illustrated in Beatrice B. Garvan, The Pennsylvania German Collection (Philadelphia, 1982), pp. 127-130.