Maker: Unknown
Enamel and steel with silver-gilt mounts; the knife has a steel blade and a tapering handle enamelled with light blue flowers on a dark blue ground; the sheath is similarly decorated.
Enamel, silver, silver-gilt and steel; the knife's steel blade curves down towards the point; the tapering oval section handle broadens towards the terminal cap which has a projecting ear on the lower side. The dark blue enamelled handle is decorated with scrolling flowers and foliage in light blue champlevé enamelling over silver, and has two applied gilt rectangles. The silver-gilt ferrule and terminal cap are engraved with simple geometric flowers, and each side of the terminal cap is engraved with the coat-of-arms of Saxony. The sheath is ovoid in section, and is similarly decorated to the knife handle but includes three silver portrait busts of a man and woman, and traces of gilding, possibly for a cipher. (One portrait bust and most of the enamel on the champlevé decoration are missing.)
History note: Frank Smart Collection
From the Frank Smart Collection, given by T.J.G. Duncanson
Method of acquisition: Given (1930) by Duncanson, T. J. G.
17th Century, Mid-Late
Production date:
circa
AD 1675
Ferrule
composed of
silver gilt
Traces
composed of
gilt
Handle
composed of
enamel
Sheath
Length 13.1 cm
Knife
Length 14.5 cm
Accession number: M.29A & B-1930
Primary reference Number: 166965
Old object number: M.2-1930
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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