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Case for Agate Handled Traveling Cutlery Set Case
This is a case. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1985. Its medium is sharkskin, silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This object was
donated by
Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
It is credited The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
- It's Getting So Dark Necklace
- pre-historic shark's tooth, faceted citrine and fluorite, jet, hematite,....
- Promised gift to the Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian....
- 7067.82.2016
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 21.3 × 4.3 × 3.2 cm (8 3/8 × 1 11/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
It has the following markings
On silver collar, stamped: [1] Dutch import mark: " ..ZII "
Cite this object as
Case for Agate Handled Traveling Cutlery Set Case; probably Netherlands; sharkskin, silver; L x W x D: 21.3 × 4.3 × 3.2 cm (8 3/8 × 1 11/16 × 1 1/4 in.); The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg; 1985-103-118-a
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
