Name/Title
Folding knife fork and spoon in a caseEntry/Object ID
0000.1.55Description
55.01 Knife: Blade with edge curving up to a sharp point and the back cut to the shape of a flattened concave triangle.
55.02 Fork: Head of steel with two long, slightly curved, sharply pointed tines on a flat neck.
The knife and fork are constructed to fold (like modern pen-knives).
Handles of knife and fork: Gilded brass(?), each tapering to the rear where it curves down to a triangular point, and cast in bas-relief with a scene of hounds hunting wild boars in a landscape, with leaf scrolls, all against a finely matted ground. Spring of blued steel.
55.03 Spoon: Gilded brass(?) with bowl of silver(?), the folding \"dog-nose\" handle decorated en suite with the handles of the knife and fork, but involving huntsmen armed with boar-hunting spears, dressed in the style of c.1740.
55.04 Case: Stamped leather, divided into compartments for four pieces and with a deep push-on lid, with the remains of a carrying thong(?) the surface is decorated with longitudinal bands of stamped conventional foliage.Collection
Cutlery Collection, SetMade/Created
Date made
1700 - 1750Time Period
18Place
City
Carlsbad or PragueCountry
Germany or CzechoslovakiaContinent
EuropeInscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
Knife: a crescent moon on blade
Fork:
Spoon:Other Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Cutlery Collection Record BookOther Number
CC55Dimensions
Dimension Notes
Length: Knife: 200 mm (open)
Fork: 205 mm (open)
Spoon: 178 mm (open)
Case, closed: 128 mmExhibitions
Exhibition
Masterpieces of Cutlery and the Art of EatingNotes
Exhibition Catalogue Number: 171
