Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of Four)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1735–1740
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Leaf-shaped blade with staright sides. Plain bolster. Silver ferrule with horizontal bands. Tapering white porcelain handle with kakiemon design in green, blue and yellow (underglaze) and red-brown overglaze. End of handle rounded with silver button cap.
place: label: Place
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: 1985-103-233
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: 24.3 × 2.3 × 2.4 cm (9 9/16 × 7/8 × 15/16 in.)