Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Elongated rectangular steel blade with rounded point. Waisted ferrule, connecting to silver handle of curving, ungulating shape, covered in a pattern of overlapping foliate scrolls and chrysanthemum buds, with engraved "B" in the central reserve. Rounded terminal, topped with chrysanthemum flower. Reverse side densley decorated with overlapping foliate scrolls and chrysanthemum buds. Side edges plain polished surface.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888
- Manufacturer
- Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853
- Date
- ca. 1880
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Medium
- silver, steel
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 23.1 × 2.1 × 1.4 cm (9 1/8 × 13/16 × 9/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
