Knife
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1700–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: New stainless steel blade, straight-sided, upper edge curving towards the point; plain bolster. Plain silver ferrule, tapering. Carved ivory handle, a nude woman on one side of the handle, a nude man on the other side. In between them a dolphin and a decorative pattern with flowers, fruit, a human face, curls and a stylized lion opening his mouth.
place: label: made in
content: possibly Germany
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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: 1985-103-175
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ivory, silver, stainless steel
label: Dimensions
content: L: 19.5 cm (7 11/16 in.)