Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Blade has straight lower edge, upper edge tapering towards the point, plain bolster. Long silver ferrule has engraved scalloped decoration along the rims, with bottom edge scalloped as well. Tapering agate handle, round in section, flower shaped metal mount on top of handle.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 17th century
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- steel, silver, agate
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 18 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm (7 1/16 × 11/16 × 9/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
