Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Sabre-shaped blade with a profiled upper edge, plain bolster and rounded neck. Flared rectangular handle with rounded top, brass mounts and band along the sides engraved with decorative pattern. Three brass rivets on each side of the handle. Front and back of handle carved mother-of-pearl.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1690
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- steel, brass, mother-of-pearl
- Dimensions
- L x W: 22.5 x 2.5 cm (8 7/8 x 1 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Knife
