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Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife Knife
This is a knife. It was made by Gorham Manufacturing Company. It is dated ca. 1880 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is gold plated, silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Historical Overview" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"This was seven years before the Paris exhibition of 1878 at which Gorham and Tiffany's introduced hand-hammered mixed metal pieces which reflected an even stronger Japanese aesthetic, including the use of Japanese knife handles and copies thereof as handles for knives (fig. 78), introducting this idea to Europe. The idea of making flatware design unrelated to the variants on the previous standard design models opened the field wide."
It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 19.7 × 2.2 × 1 cm (7 3/4 × 7/8 × 3/8 in.)
It has the following markings
On base of blade, stamped: [1] Lion passant, anchor, gothic G (maker's mark for Gorham) [2] STERLING [3] 5
Cite this object as
Japonesque Style Pattern Number 5 Frunit Knife Knife; Made by Gorham Manufacturing Company (United States); USA; gold plated, silver; L x W x D: 19.7 × 2.2 × 1 cm (7 3/4 × 7/8 × 3/8 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 1996-81-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
