Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Knife in the form of a Japanese sword; rectangular handle with mottled surface, one side decorated with a dove and tree with leaves; other side depicts fish and kelp. 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
- gold plated, silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 19.8 × 2.1 × 0.7 cm (7 13/16 × 13/16 × 1/4 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
