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'Flaches Modell' Patttern Dessert Knife

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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