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Folding Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle Knife
This is a knife. It is dated 1535–50 and we acquired it in 1985. Its medium is ivory, steel, gold plated, brass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Folding knife
France or Italy, 1535-1550
Bone, steel, brass, gilding
The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg, 1985-103-178
This object was
donated by
Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
It is credited The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
- Print, Design for Two Knife Handles
- engraving on off-white laid paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-350-1
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 18.3 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm (7 3/16 in. × 1 in. × 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Folding Traveling Knife with Ivory Handle Knife; ivory, steel, gold plated, brass; L x W x D: 18.3 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm (7 3/16 in. × 1 in. × 11/16 in.); The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg; 1985-103-178
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
