Fork and Knife with Porcelain Handles
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
label: Manufacturer
content: F. & E. Marcus, German, 18th century onwards
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: knife (a): Slightly curved rounded steel blade and tapering tubular porcelain handle. Nickel socket. Blue and white porcelain handle comprising stylized blue flowers and sprigs on a white ground.
label: Description
content: fork (b): three tine fork and tubular tapering porcelain handle, nickel socket. Blue and white handle decorated wtih stylized blue flowers on a white ground.
place: label: Place
content: Germany
label: manufactured in
content: Solingren, 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: 1931-5-25-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
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, steel, gold plated, nickel
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D (knife (a)): 19.6 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm (7 11/16 × 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D (fork (b)): 17.5 × 2 × 2 cm (6 7/8 × 13/16 × 13/16 in.)