Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
name: label: Maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Knife in the form of a Japanese sword; rectangular handle with mottled surface, one side decorated with scene of full moon above two naked men, an octopus attacking one's leg; other side with galloping horse and phoenix in full plumage, set within thin border. Flat, curved blade with blunt tip, engraved with stylized foliate decoration on both sides. Some small areas of gold plate throughout surface of handle.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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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 General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-81-1
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
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 19.7 × 2.2 × 1 cm (7 3/4 × 7/8 × 3/8 in.)