Fork and Knife with Porcelain Handles
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th–18th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
label: Probably
content: Bartholomäus Seuter, German, 1676 - 1754
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Knife (a): steel blade with up-curved tip with tapering tubular porcelain handle with blue arabesques on a white ground with painted gilt decoration; fork (b): four tine silver gilt with tapering tubular porcelain handle with blue arabesques on a white ground with painted gilt decoration.
place: label: Place
content: Germany
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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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-41-19-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: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, steel
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D (knife (a)): 22.8 × 2 × 1.8 cm (9 in. × 13/16 in. × 11/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D (fork (b)): 18.8 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm (7 3/8 × 7/8 × 11/16 in.)