Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of Four)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1735–1740
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Blade has slightly curved upper edge. Lower edge tapering towards the point. Drop bolster, silver ferrule has horizontal bands. Tapering white porcelain handle with rounded top, flat sides. Handle decorated with kakiemon design in blue, green and yellow (underglaze) and red-brown overglaze. Silver button cap at the top of the handle.
place: label: manufactured in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1985-103-232
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Type
content: knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, silver, steel
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 26.5 × 2.3 × 2.3 cm (10 7/16 × 7/8 × 7/8 in.)