<img width="439" height="1024" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2002-18-2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Image features a four-tined silver dessert fork, its form suggesting a tulip on its sinuous, leaf-encased stem. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object." style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2002-18-2.jpg 439w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2002-18-2-129x300.jpg 129w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2002-18-2-101x235.jpg 101w" sizes="(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px" data-attachment-id="31699" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/10/22/a-tulip-for-the-table/2002-18-2/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2002-18-2.jpg" data-orig-size="439,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="2002-18-2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2002-18-2-129x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2002-18-2.jpg" />This silver dessert fork from the “Tulip” pattern, was designed by Henrich Vogeler in 1898-99, and produced by the firm of M. H. Wilkens & Söhn in Bremen, Germany. Vogeler’s Tulip pattern is one of the most graceful German flatware patterns of the Jugendstil period, and this particular piece shows the pattern well. Vogeler, trained as...
