1999.306.51.1-4: Travelling Cutlery Set
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.306.51.1-4
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Travelling Cutlery Set
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- tool/equipment
- Date
- c. 1690
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/186490
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver, steel, shagreen, wood, silk, brass
- Dimensions
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case: 15.2 × 6.3 × 6.3 cm (6 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
knife: 23.2 cm (9 1/8 in.)
fork: 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in.)
spoon / marrow scoop: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.)
152 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- maker's mark: on steel knife blade, struck: cutler's mark: a crown under a dagger
- inscription: fork handle, engraved: G * H
- inscription: knife handle, engraved: G * H
- inscription: back of spoon bowl, engraved: G * H
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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David Berg, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Museum, 1999.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of David Berg
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.306.51.1-4
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Comprising two cannon-shaped handles engraved with a continuous pattern of cherubs clamouring amid foliate scrolls within stiff leaf borders, into which screw a steel knife blade and a steel two-pronged fork; and a combination spoon with rat-tail bowl engraved with scrolling foliage and marrow scoop with similar decoration, the two handles and the back of the spoon bowl engraved with the initials G*H; in a fitted shagreen-covered case with wood inset and brass thumbpiece.
Publication History
- Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), pp. 84-85, cat. no. 47, repr. p. 84, details repr. p. 84.
Verification Level
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