IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167098 accession number: M.42A & B-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 10 December 2013 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ivory, silver and silver plated nickle; each knife has an ivory handle which is carved as a woman in 17th century dress with ringletted hair, holding a fan in her fight hand. The later blade is of electro-plated nickle silver (EPNS). It has parallel sides and a rounded tip. The later ferrule is of silver, oval in section and reeded. object type: ivory, silver and silver plated nickle; each knife with an ivory handle of a woman holding a fan and a later silver plated blade title: pair of knives NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Smart Collection LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank Smart Collection creditline: From the Frank Smart Collection, given by T.J.G. Duncanson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167098 PEOPLE ------------------- woman CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Harrison Brothers & Howson CITATIONS -------- British Cutlery: An Illustrated History of Design, Evolution and Use Cutlery: From Gothic to Art Deco: The J. Hollander Collection Knives & Forks of the Victoria and Albert Museum ---