knife;
fork
- Museum number
- Franks.13
- Description
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Knife and Fork; with reddish-brown stoneware handles, silver blade and two-pronged fork; handles are highly polished on a lathe; tapered out towards the end and having two raised lines around the hilt; blade of knife marked.
- Production date
- 1711-1713 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 21 centimetres (max;fork)
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Length: 22 centimetres (max;knife)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a comparable knife and fork in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see H. Jedding, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts', Munich 1979, p. 29, fig. 13.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Small chip off end of fork handle.
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Franks.13