Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Leaf-shaped blade with plain bolster and engraved brass ferrule. Mother-of-pearl handle with inlaid bands of horn, ivory and brass in geometrical pattern. Three brass rivets and inlaid finials on the top of leaf-shaped handle.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1690
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- Steel, mother-of-pearl, horn
- Dimensions
- L x W: 14.7 x 1.1 cm (5 13/16 x 7/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Knife
