- Title Information
- Title
- Check cutter
- Subtitle
- back view
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Gorham Silver Company
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Codman, William Christmas
- Name Part:
Date
- 1839-1921
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- designer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Sauthof, George W.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- chaser (metalworker)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- photographs
- Genre (aat)
- straightedges
- Origin Information
- Date Issued
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1903
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- xxz
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph; 29.9 x 61 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Back view of cast silver check cutter (desk set accessory) with chasing front and back. Art nouveau tendrils with five petal flowers around. Shape tapers to thin, straight edge at bottom. Form also called a "straight edge", but called a "check cutter" in Gorham records and publicity materials. Part of 16-piece desk set made for the inlaid silver table exhibited at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
- Note
- Gorham's marks of lion, anchor, and G on lower left corner of back
- Note
- Material: Cast sterling silver
- Note
- Size of original: 2.5 cm. x 23.8 cm. x 5.7 cm.
- Note
- Weight of original 5.2 oz.
- Note
- Style: Art nouveau
- Note:
provenance
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Morris, Jr.
- Note
- Repository: Rhode Island School of Design Museum
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Gorham Collection
- Identifier:
COLID
- 44
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/Gorham
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="Gorham")
- DGE
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="RISD Museum accession no.")
- 2006.114
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1242322539562500
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.