IDENTIFIERS
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id:	82182
accession number:	EC.44A-1942

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Steel blade; silver ferrule; soft-paste porcelain handle painted underglaze in blue, with an iron rod projecting from a central hole at the upper end. The handle is of tapering cylindrical form with a rounded upper end. The upper and lower ends of the sides are decorated with berainesque borders, and the upper end with a multi-petalled flower head. The long, narrow blade is slightly curved on the lower edge and comes to a blunt point at the end.
object type: Knife with steel blade, silver ferrule, and soft-paste porcelain handle, painted underglaze in blue in Berainesque style
title:	knife

NOTES
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type: history note
value: The Rev. G.A. Schneider; sold Sotheby's, 4 June 1942, Catalogue of European Ceramics and Glass comprising the interesting and extensive collection of the Rev. G.A. Schneider, p. 18, part of lot 84; the lot sold for £10 Louis C.G. Clarke by whom given to the Fitzwilliam Museum


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
creditline: Given by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82182





CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1740
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1740
culture:	18th Century, first half#

CREATORS
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maker: Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 27.2



CITATIONS
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Porcelaines de Saint-Cloud
Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1690-1766
The Howard Neville Collection of Early Works of Art and Textiles, Together with Selected Other Properties
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