Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Knife in the form of a Japanese sword; rectangular handle with mottled stippled surface, both sides decorated with floral bouquet in vase, within thin border. Flat, curved blade with blunt tip, engraved with stylized foliate decoration. Some small areas of copper plate throughout surface of handle.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Maker
- Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
- Date
- ca. 1880
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- Medium
- copper plated, silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 19.7 × 2.2 × 0.9 cm (7 3/4 × 7/8 × 3/8 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
