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Handle maker:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Cutler:
MASO
Soft-paste porcelain and steel; the knife with white soft-paste porcelain handle and steel scimitar-shaped blade; the two tined fork with similar handle
Soft-paste porcelain and steel; the knife has a soft-paste porcelain pistol grip handle and steel scimitar-shaped blade. The all white handle is moulded in relief with scrollwork and small prunus blossoms. The broad steel ferrule has a scalloped border. The fork has two long steel tines and a similar, but slightly smaller, handle to that of the knife.
History note: Mrs Bradman, probably Great Bradley, by whom given to Miss Parsons of Manor Farm, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire. Given by Miss Parsons about 1918 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
History note: Given to Miss Parsons by Mrs. Bradman, the wife of a forman on the farm, who came from Bradley (presumably Great Bradley near Newmarket). She told Miss Parsons that someone gave them to her as "odd things" when she started housekeeping but they looked as if they had been buried.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Handle
composed of
soft-paste porcelain
Blade
composed of
steel
Ferrule
composed of
steel
Tines
composed of
steel
Knife (to Break)
Length 15.1 cm
Fork
Length 17.8 cm
Knife (entire)
Length 20.9 cm
Accession number: C.3024A & B-1928
Primary reference Number: 74334
Old object number: 4876
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Knife and fork" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74334 Accessed: 2024-12-27 19:08:35
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