Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Long scalpel-shaped blade, with visible inset join with handle at neck. Neck flares to sloped shoulder. Handle of subtle asymmetrical pistol shape, on both obverse and reverse sides of handle decorated with engraved elongated double line oval border, lapping over to side edges. Within top edge of border, engraved elongated oval leads to sweeping double line which continues down handle, terminating in sharp v-shape angle meeting fan-shaped leaf sprig atop an elongated oval on length of terminal.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Joseph Maria Olbrich, Austrian, 1867 – 1908
- Manufacturer
- Christofle, French, founded 1830
- G. Leykauf, German,
- Date
- 1901
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Christie's in honor of Joseph Holtzman
- Medium
- silver plated, metal, steel
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 25 × 2.2 × 1.9 cm (9 13/16 × 7/8 × 3/4 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
