Knife
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sabre-shaped blade with straight upper edge; plain bolster. Silver ferrule engraved with leaf-pattern; has traces of gilding. Carved ivory handle, oval in section, has plain lower part and a decorative pattern around the middle of the handle. Upper part of handle carved in the shape of a king (shown from the waist up) wearing a crown. He is holding a chalice in one hand while pointing to it with the other hand.
place: label: made in
content: possibly France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1985-103-174
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 (whale bone?), silver, steel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: L x W: 24 x 2.1 cm (9 7/16 x 13/16 in.)