Fruit Knife with Mother-of-Pearl Handle
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1890
name: label: Designer
content: François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Scimtar or saber-shaped blade with curved shape with swirling pointed tip. Surface gold plated and adorned with engraved Japonesque decoration. With geometric pattern at top, with woman in kimono in central reserve, and vine motif deocrating base of blade. Reverse side of blade devoid of decoration. Banded gold plated ferrule leads to mother of pearl handle, decorated with carved diagonal fluting, slightly widenning to rounded terminal.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Paris, 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: Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-56-79
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: gold plated, silver, mother-of-pearl
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 22 × 3.6 × 0.8 cm (8 11/16 × 1 7/16 × 5/16 in.)