Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Blade straight-sided, the upper edge tapering towards the point. The blade engraved with acanthus foliage and flowers. Handle enameled, a medallion on each side of the handle: one showing Apollo, the other one of the Virtues, (Constancy?). Handle has flaring shape with a projecting ear on one side, silver engraved with two crossed swords.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1680
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- silver, enamel, steel
- Dimensions
- L x W: 12.5 x 1.7 cm (4 15/16 x 11/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Knife
