Surprise Endings

Gorham Silver's Mythologique

Description

Publisher & Date

RISD Museum, 2015

Selected Objects

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern for butter knife, cheese knife, individual large salad fork, beef fork, large pastry fork, and individual large fish fork, "Oedipus and the Sphynx", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern for olive spoon, butter pick, olive fork, mustard spoon, and oyster fork, "Childhood of Bacchus", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern backside for gravy ladle, large sugar sifter, cold meat fork, preserve spoon, tablespoon, large cheese spoon, and pea spoon, "Vulcan Presenting Thunderbolts to Jupiter", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern for crumb knife, asparagus fork, berry spoon, vegetable spoon and fork, and fish knife and fork, "Apollo Crowned by the Muses", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern for gravy ladle, large sugar sifter, cold meat fork, preserve spoon, tablespoon, large cheese scoop, and pea spoon, "Vulcan Presenting Thunderbolts to Jupiter", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern backside for cream ladle, jelly spoon, waffle knife, pie knife, and dessert spoon, "Nessus Carrying Off Dejanira", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern for cake knife, individual fish knife, dessert knife, and ice cream slicer, "Perseus with the Head of Medusa", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern for cream ladle, jelly spoon, waffle knife, pie knife, and dessert spoon, "Nessus Carrying Off Dejanira", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern backside for pickle knife, teaspoon, orange spoon, pap spoon, ice cream spoon and sugar spoon, "Penelope Recognizing Ulysses", 1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pattern for pickle knife, teaspoon, orange spoon, pap spoon, ice cream spoon, and sugar spoon, "Penelope Recognizing Ulysses", 1894