Object Details
- Designer
- François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- One of twelve fruit knives. Rectangular blade with pointed tip, surface adorned with engraved scrolling and spiral foliage decoration on lower half. Reverse side of blade devoid of decoration. Banded gold plated ferrule leads to mother of pearl handle, decorated with carved diagonal fluting, slightly widenning to rounded terminal.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds
- ca. 1890
- Accession Number
- 1996-56-74
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
- Medium
- steel, gold plated, silver, mother of pearl
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 20 × 1 × 0.8 cm (7 7/8 × 3/8 × 5/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1996-56-74
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f715aa94-c45c-4696-8639-ceaf243572f8
