Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Knife with straight sided tapering handle engraved with figures of Perveirs ?, Hermurs ?, scenes from a tale invluding Susannah and the Elders, grotesques and masks. Shaped and pierced terminal with gilt baluster finial; pointed steel blade.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1618
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
- Medium
- silver, steel, gilding
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 21.4 × 2.2 × 0.6 cm (8 7/16 × 7/8 × 1/4 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- knife
