Folding Cutlery Set
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Folding cutlery set with one large and two smaller steel knife blades, upper edges decorated with engraved inlaid brass. Large brass oval spoon bowl with pointed tip, engraved foliate decoration on reverse. Steel fork has four straight tines. Heart-shaped openings on the joint and neck of the fork. Brass handle inlaid with mother of pearl squares on front and back. Four brass rivets on each piece of mother of pearl.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Sweden
label: possibly made in
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: 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: 1985-103-135
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: folding cutlery set
label: Type
content: folding cutlery set
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: steel, brass, mother of pearl
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D (folded): 12 × 4.6 × 3.7 cm (4 3/4 × 1 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D (opened): 21.9 × 4.6 × 2.5 cm (8 5/8 in. × 1 13/16 in. × 1 in.)