Knife & Fork

Name/Title

Knife & Fork

Entry/Object ID

0000.1.22

Description

22.01 Knife: Flaring blade with both back and edge tapering to a leaf-shaped tip with a diagonal hollow bolster. Handle of silver-gilt flaring in shape and circular in section, with engraved scalloped foliage at both ends and in the middle, and with domed and striated ends; a ball finial. 22.02 Fork: Head with two thin curving tines of deep cup-shaped elliptical section and a long straight banded neck and waisted bolster. Handle identical to 22.01.

Collection

Cutlery Collection, Fork and Knife

Made/Created

Artist

William Boswell

Date made

1668 - 1700

Time Period

17

Place

City

London

Country

England

Continent

Europe

Notes

Company Connection: Boswell's mark registered 1668

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

Knife: A letter Y in lower case and a dagger Fork:

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Cutlery Collection Record Book

Other Number

CC22

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Length: Knife 203 mm Fork 170 mm