IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166965 accession number: M.29A & B-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 24 September 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Enamel, silver, silver-gilt and steel; the knife's steel blade curves down towards the point; the tapering oval section handle broadens towards the terminal cap which has a projecting ear on the lower side. The dark blue enamelled handle is decorated with scrolling flowers and foliage in light blue champlevé enamelling over silver, and has two applied gilt rectangles. The silver-gilt ferrule and terminal cap are engraved with simple geometric flowers, and each side of the terminal cap is engraved with the coat-of-arms of Saxony. The sheath is ovoid in section, and is similarly decorated to the knife handle but includes three silver portrait busts of a man and woman, and traces of gilding, possibly for a cipher. (One portrait bust and most of the enamel on the champlevé decoration are missing.) object type: enamel and steel with silver-gilt mounts; the knife has a steel blade and a tapering handle enamelled with light blue flowers on a dark blue ground; the sheath is similarly decorated. title: knife and sheath NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Smart Collection LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank Smart Collection creditline: From the Frank Smart Collection, given by T.J.G. Duncanson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166965 PEOPLE ------------------- man woman SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower TECHNIQUES ---------- applied TECHNIQUES ---------- champlevé TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1675 - 1675 creation date earliest: 1675 creation date latest: 1675 culture: 17th Century, Mid-Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005 Cutlery: From Gothic to Art Deco: The J. Hollander Collection ---