Fork and Knife with Glazed Earthenware Handles
date: label: Date
content: mid-18th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Saxony, Germany, founded 1710
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Knife (a): Straight-backed steel blade with rounded, upcurved tip. Pistol grip porcelain handle painted with blue, green and yellow flowers and scrolls out-lined with manganese; fork (b): three prong steel tines and pistol-grip handle painted in blue, green and yellow flowers and foliage within manganesse outlines.
place: label: probably made 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: Gift of Leverton Harris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1913-13-7-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: fork and knife
label: Type
content: fork and knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Glazed earthenware, steel
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((a) knife): 22.3 × 2.5 × 1.6 cm (8 3/4 in. × 1 in. × 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D ((b) fork): 16.9 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm (6 5/8 × 13/16 × 5/8 in.)