Name/Title

Fork

Entry/Object ID

0000.1.203

Description

The head with two long, straight, sharply pointed tines on a short baluster neck. The base of the tines and neck are gilded. The handle of ivory, carved as the full-length figure of St Peter, wearing robes and holding keys in his left hand, and a book in his right. The silver ferrule coarsely engraved with a band of conventional running foliage.

Collection

Cutlery Collection, Fork

Made/Created

Artist

Unidentified

Date made

1650 - 1700

Time Period

17

Place

Country

Germany

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

None

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Cutlery Collection Record Book

Other Number

CC203

Dimensions

Length

213 mm

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Masterpieces of Cutlery and the Art of Eating

Notes

Exhibition Catalogue Number: 133