Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Flat, rectangular blade with rounded tip. Waisted join, continuing to straight edged flat handle, rectangular in form. Handle tapering very slightly towards base of blade. Four hollow beads attached in a row at terminal of handle.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Josef Hoffmann, Austrian, 1870 – 1956
- Manufacturer
- Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, Austria, 1903 – 1932
- Date
- 1903
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Friends of Applied Arts and Industrial Design, General Acquisitions Endowment, and Morrill Acquisitions Funds
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 18.5 × 1.9 × 0.6 cm (7 5/16 × 3/4 × 1/4 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
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