IDENTIFIERS
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id:	166969
accession number:	M.36A & B-1930

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 13 December 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Mother-of-pearl, wood and steel with brass mounts; the knife has a scimitar-shaped blade with flatted ball-shaped bolster; the pistol grip handle is inlaid with striped bands of wood set with small brass pellets and mother-of-pearl.  The handle terminates in an engraved section of mother-of-pearl.  Round the handle is an engraved brass mount held with dark metal pins, and a broad engraved brass ferrule.  The fork has two long steel tines and a polymorphic bolster; the handle is decorated similarly to that of the knife.
object type: mother-of-pearl, wood and steel with brass mounts; the knife has a steel scimitar-shaped blade and a pistol grip handle which is inlaid with striped bands of mother-of-pearl and wood; the two-tined fork is similarly decorated.
title:	knife and fork

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Frank Smart Collection


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166969





TECHNIQUES
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engraving

CATEGORIES
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category: cutlery

DATING
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creation date:	1650 - 1750
creation date earliest:	1650
creation date latest:	1750
culture:	17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified


CITATIONS
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Bestecke: Die Egloffstein'sche Sammlung (15.-18. Juhrhundert) auf der Wartburg
Cutlery for the Table: A History of British Table and Pocket Cutlery
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