Topic: Hollow fish with gold leaf

[chopin-liszt]

I thought caviare was supposed to be served from a double walled container which held ice under the stuff. 
It looks too delicate to be shoving metal utensils into it, and it doesn't really look that practical for salt.
But where on it is there something to hold a place card?

[johnphilip]

The small ones are for place cards scroll back , they have a receptacle for it .

[Ivo]

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,43465.msg242355.html#msg242355

another age, another fish, another technique but maybe same usage?

[flying free]

they remind me of spoon warmers - but I'm sure we've had this discussion before and one wouldn't use glass as a spoon warmer - hot water/metal and glass not a good combination.
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[flying free]

http://www.alafacondevenise.fr/affichage_dyn_objets.php?action=showfull&vpic=123&gll=1&tpic=32&maxp=53&page=1
this is an old one here 18th century and  called a table epergne.
I think the owner of the site has written a book on 15th to 17thc glass so I'd guess if it had another function it would have been noted.
It seems it is simply known as a table epergne.
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[glassobsessed]

Sorry, been distracted by family issues recently.

I find it hard to see the function of this fish as a spoon warmer, it is too small, it might work for a teaspoon sized spoon but that is about it. Good to see another example M thanks, that one looks early 20th century to me but what do I know!

John

[flying free]

pretty sure the dating on that one is correct  - they have a flask on there that sold for Euro 38,000 8 years ago 
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