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Knife with Porcelain Handle Knife
This is a knife. It was probably Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory and Bow Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated mid- 18th century and we acquired it in 1985. Its medium is steel, silver; soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "The Design of Table Tools..." in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
" The mandate of the single-edged blade changed the way the knife handle was held. Rather than gripping it with all five fingers, as if to stab a morsel of meat, the user folded the palm of the hand around the handle, with the index finger extended along the top of the blade. The new grasp allowed better leverage to cut food, and is the way a knife handle is held today (figs. 3, 4)"
It is credited The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 26.7 × 3.2 × 2.1 cm (10 1/2 × 1 1/4 × 13/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Knife with Porcelain Handle Knife; Probably Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (United Kingdom), Bow Porcelain Manufactory (England, GB, United Kingdom); England; steel, silver; soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel; L x W x D: 26.7 × 3.2 × 2.1 cm (10 1/2 × 1 1/4 × 13/16 in.); The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg; 1985-103-205
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
