Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
name: label: Maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Knife in the form of a Japanese sword; rectangular handle with mottled surface, one side decorated with a dove and tree with leaves; other side depicts fish and kelp. Flat, curved blade with blunt tip, engraved with stylized foliate decoration. Some small areas of copper plate throughout surface of handle.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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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: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996-81-6
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Type
content: knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: gold plated, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 19.8 × 2.1 × 0.7 cm (7 13/16 × 13/16 × 1/4 in.)