IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74334 accession number: C.3024A & B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 8 April 2014 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain and steel; the knife has a soft-paste porcelain pistol grip handle and steel scimitar-shaped blade. The all white handle is moulded in relief with scrollwork and small prunus blossoms. The broad steel ferrule has a scalloped border. The fork has two long steel tines and a similar, but slightly smaller, handle to that of the knife. object type: soft-paste porcelain and steel; the knife with white soft-paste porcelain handle and steel scimitar-shaped blade; the two tined fork with similar handle title: knife and fork NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Bradman, probably Great Bradley, by whom given to Miss Parsons of Manor Farm, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire. Given by Miss Parsons about 1918 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. type: history note value: Given to Miss Parsons by Mrs. Bradman, the wife of a forman on the farm, who came from Bradley (presumably Great Bradley near Newmarket). She told Miss Parsons that someone gave them to her as "odd things" when she started housekeeping but they looked as if they had been buried. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74334 SUBJECTS ------------------- prunus blossom prunus blossom CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: MASO CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Cutlery: From Gothic to Art Deco: The J. Hollander Collection British Cutlery: An Illustrated History of Design, Evolution and Use Cutlery for the Table: A History of British Table and Pocket Cutlery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3024B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3024B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3024B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3024B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3024B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3024B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3024B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3024B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3024A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3024A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3024A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3024A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3024A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3024A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3024A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3024A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels