Folding Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle
date: label: Date
content: 1535–50
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Straight-sided blade, the upper edge curving sharply towards the point. The blade is engraved and gilded, a flower spray on one side, a monk or saint looking up to the sky on the other side; blade folds into back of ivory handle. Small brass caps at the hinge. The handle is carved in the shape of the torso of a monk, bold with beard, holding a staff with his arm and a Bible and a church in the other hand. (Possibly Dominic [1170-1221] holding the Lateran Church?)
place: label: possibly made in
content: France or Italy
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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: 1985-103-178
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: ivory, steel, gold plated, brass
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 18.3 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm (7 3/16 in. × 1 in. × 11/16 in.)