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Two forks

Silver and soft-paste porcelain

Origin: France, Paris. The porcelain, probably Chantilly or Villeroy

Date: 1735-1736 and 1740-1741

19.1 cm length

Marks/Maker: Paris, charge mark (1732-8), warden's mark (1735-6), maker's mark CD a device between, possibly for Claude Dargent, discharge mark a foxes head; counter mark, a leaf? The other: Paris, charge mark (1738-44), discharge mark a foxes head

Presented by C. de Costa Andrade, 1968; WA1968.271

T. Schroder (2009), no. 572

Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)

Fork: The fork first arrived in Italy from Byzantium in the eleventh century and was in regular use there by the fifteenth century. It was a while before the fork was accepted elsewhere in Europe. In 1518, Martin Luther amusingly quipped,

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