Travelling Cutlery Set

Artists

Description

Comprising two cannon-shaped handles engraved with a continuous pattern of cherubs clamouring amid foliate scrolls within stiff leaf borders, into which screw a steel knife blade and a steel two-pronged fork; and a combination spoon with rat-tail bowl engraved with scrolling foliage and marrow scoop with similar decoration, the two handles and the back of the spoon bowl engraved with the initials G*H; in a fitted shagreen-covered case with wood inset and brass thumbpiece.

Dimensions

case: 15.2 × 6.3 × 6.3 cm (6 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.) knife: 23.2 cm (9 1/8 in.) fork: 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in.) spoon / marrow scoop: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.) 152 g

Provenance

David Berg, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Museum, 1999.