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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Knife

ca. 1740-ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Knife with flat porcelain handle decorated with regence shell motifs and ribbed mouldings. The blade is stamped with a cuttler's mark of a crowned hammer (?)


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain with moulded decoration, silver ferrule and steel blade
Brief description
Knife with flat porcelain handle decorated with shell motifs and ribbed mouldings, possibly manufactured at Saint-Cloud porcelain factory, France, about 1740-1760
Physical description
Knife with flat porcelain handle decorated with regence shell motifs and ribbed mouldings. The blade is stamped with a cuttler's mark of a crowned hammer (?)
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Production
Acquired as 'French'
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
999-1902

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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