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Knife with Bell Form Handle Knife
This is a knife. It is dated 17th century and we acquired it in 1985. Its medium is steel, brass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Sexual Politics of Cutlery" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
" The knife masculine connotations reach beyond its phallic shape (fig. 8), and back to teh roots of European society, whose aristocrats are descended from tribes of hunters and warriors. Gaming perquisites made hunting their exclusive privilege; therefore the distribution of its spoils at a banquest emphasized these rights by the bravura with which well-born carvers performed their tasks and by the eleganve of their knives."
This object was
donated by
Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
It is credited The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 20.7 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm (8 1/8 in. × 1 in. × 15/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Knife with Bell Form Handle Knife; probably Italy; steel, brass; L x W x D: 20.7 × 2.5 × 2.4 cm (8 1/8 in. × 1 in. × 15/16 in.); The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg; 1985-103-13
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
