knife
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large fish serving knife with wide saber-shaped blade and ivory handle. Blade of curving saber-shape with pointed tip, with rounded cutting edge scalloped top edge. Blade decorated with pierced spiral foliate pattern, surrounded by engraved scrolling foliate and floral pattern, interspersed with dotted band border. Reverse side lacks engraved decoration surrounding pierced spirals. On both sides, line border following shape of scalloped edge. Silver ferrule decorated with scrolling vine and floral pattern on stippled ground, connecting to ivory handle. Terminal of rounded fan-shape and decorated with dense floral pattern.
place: label: possibly made in
content: England or USA
setName: label: See more items in
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 Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-80-1
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: metal, silver plate, celluloid
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 32.3 × 5.1 × 2.3 cm (12 11/16 in. × 2 in. × 7/8 in.)