Table Shine: silver serving ware from Myroslav Koval's collection
The collection shows objects whose purpose now has to be explained.
Half the cases carry an extra card with a drawing: how the object was held and what for. Asparagus tongs, a fish slice, a marrow spoon — each a single-purpose object that vanished along with the habit.
Koval says that without the cards visitors usually guess wrong — and the commonest guess for anything elongated is the same: "something for dessert".
