IDENTIFIERS
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id:	166984
accession number:	M.18A & B-1930

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Saturday 11 March 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Steel and ivory; each knife has a steel blade with parellel sides and a solid bolster; the tapering oval section handle broadens towards the rounded terminal.  The decorated handle, the first section of which is forged from one piece with the blade, comprises three bands of steel cut with a geometric pattern, stamped and gilded and inlaid/overlaid with stamped silver floral and foliate(?) motifs; interspersed by two narrow facetted-ivory spacers.
object type: steel and ivory; each knife has a steel blade and a parcel-gilt cut steel and silver and facetted-ivory handle
title:	pair of knives

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/166984

PEOPLE
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The Elector of Saxony




CATEGORIES
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category: cutlery

DATING
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creation date:	1580 - 1640
creation date earliest:	1580
creation date latest:	1640
culture:	16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800)
CITATIONS
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British Cutlery: An Illustrated History of Design, Evolution and Use
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