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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, ‘God preserve me from the little forks’! It finally came into common use in the seventeenth century, where it developed from the two-pronged type to one of three or four prongs, demonstrating its transition from carving or serving fork to one used for eating.
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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)
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