IDENTIFIERS
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id:	167109
accession number:	C.539A-C-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 30 June 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Saltglazed-stoneware and steel; each knife has a saltglazed-stoneware pistol grip handle and steel scimitar-shaped blade.  The all white handle is moulded in relief with a bird on a spray of prunus blossom.   The broad steel ferrule has a scalloped border.  The fork has three steel tines and a similar, but slightly smaller, handle to that of the knife.
object type: saltglazed-stoneware and steel; each knife with white saltglazed-stoneware handle and steel scimitar-shaped blade; the three tined fork with similar handle
title:	pair of knives and fork

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Cunliffe & Co. (Mr Hampden), 38 Hanbury Street; bought on 10 November 1917 for £3 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


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:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167109


SUBJECTS
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bird
prunus sprays
bird
prunus sprays



CATEGORIES
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category: cutlery

DATING
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creation date:	1740 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1740
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
British Cutlery: An Illustrated History of Design, Evolution and Use
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