IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167105 accession number: M.56A & B-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver, enamel and steel; the knife has a steel blade with parallel sides; the handle is rectangular in section and has has two enamelled scales held by a silver ferrule, terminal cap and mounts on the sides. The enamel has a white ground decorated with green and blue scrolls, circles and lozenges within borders of red dots. The silver mounts are engraved with borders of chevrons and hatched lines. The fork has two long steel tines and a similar handle. Above the blade of the knife and tines of the fork are gaps within the handles which allow the blade to fit into the fork's handle and vice versa, thereby interlocking the knife and fork, and making them safe for travelling. object type: silver, enamel and steel; the knife has a steel blade and a silver and enamel handle ; the two tined fork is similarly decorated title: knife and fork 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/167105 CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified maker: Unknown maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Cutlery: From Gothic to Art Deco: The J. Hollander Collection Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005 ---