Knife
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1680–1700
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Blade straight-sided, upper edge curved towards the point. Plain ferrule, oval in section. Carved ivory handle: two women in costume standing in front of each other, one holding a sword and a scale (Justice), and showing one of her booted legs beneath her dress. The other woman is holding a cornucopia in one hand and a sheaf of corn (?) in the other, attributions of Abundance.
place: label: made in
content: Netherlands
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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: 1985-103-165
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ivory, steel, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)