Fork, between 1740 and 1770

  • Johann Leonhart Allmann, German, 1697 - 1775
  • Johann Georg Herkommer, German, 1700-1754

Silver gilt; chasing

  • Overall: 7 1/16 × 7/8 × 3/8 inches, 46.7 g (17.9 × 2.2 × 1 cm, 1.6 ounces) Overall (Leather case): 3 × 9 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (7.6 × 24.8 × 17.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

44.52

On View

  • British Decorative Arts, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Rosenheim Collection

sold by (Sotheby's, London, England)

William Randolph Hearst. (Charles K. Lock)

1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"A Rococo Silver-Gilt Traveling Set." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 23, no. 4 (January 1944): 31, p. 31 (ill.).

Johann Leonhart Allmann; Johann Georg Herkommer, Fork, between 1740 and 1770, silver gilt; chasing. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 44.52.