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Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle Knife
This is a knife . It is dated late 18th century and we acquired it in 1959. Its medium is green-stained ivory, steel, silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Historical Overview" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"Another way in which color came to flatware was through the use of green-stained ivory or bone on knife handles. These were popular for dessert and table knives, and sometimes used with steel-tined forks in France, England, the United States and elsewhere for much of the second half of the eighteenth and first quarter of the nineteenth centuries (fig. 70)."
This object was
donated by
Francis B. Lothrop.
It is credited Gift of Francis B. Lothrop.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D (c): 20.7 × 1.7 × 1.4 cm (8 1/8 × 11/16 × 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle Knife ; England; green-stained ivory, steel, silver; L x W x D (c): 20.7 × 1.7 × 1.4 cm (8 1/8 × 11/16 × 9/16 in.); Gift of Francis B. Lothrop; 1959-56-1-c
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
