Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Scimitar-shape blade with ornamnetal serrated edge with spade-shape teeth. Blade, curving towards pointed end. At base of blade, surface decorated with diagonal line of dots, followed by diagonal striped section, then series of foliate scrolls curling off central medallion of sun, with radiating scrolling rays. Reverse side of blade plain, with no surface decoration. Narrow neck and stem, decorated with diagonal reeding halfway down handle, meeting setting sun motif above banded section. Stem continues, flaring towards terminal, decorated with scrolling foliate pattern, including sun with scrolling rays. Terminating in crowned antique style "Assyrian" head with laurel surrounding neck. Terminal of slightly rounded rectagular shape. Reverse side of handle devoid of ornamentation, with plain polished surface.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Meriden Brittania Company, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, 1808 - 1898
- Designer
- Rogers Brothers Silver, Hartford and Meriden, Connecticut, 1847 - 1862
- Date
- 1886–87
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
- Medium
- silver plated, metal
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 27.3 × 3.7 × 0.4 cm (10 3/4 × 1 7/16 × 3/16 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
