Object Details
- Designer
- François Nicoud, French, active Paris ca. 1875-1890
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Scimtar or saber-shaped blade with curved shape with swirling pointed tip. Surface gold plated and adorned with engraved Japonesque decoration. With geometric pattern at top, with woman in kimono in central reserve, and vine motif deocrating base of blade. 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
- 1996-56-79
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
- Medium
- gold plated, silver, mother-of-pearl
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 22 × 3.6 × 0.8 cm (8 11/16 × 1 7/16 × 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_1996-56-79
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a4d60cdd-d09b-452e-aa17-80ca1b19193b
