IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82183 accession number: EC.44B-1942 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 21 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Steel blade; silver ferrule; soft-paste porcelain handle painted underglaze in blue, with an iron rod projecting slightly from a central hole at the upper end, surrounded by a silver (?) washer. The handle is of tapering cylindrical form with a rounded upper end. The upper and lower ends of the sides are decorated with berainesque borders, and the upper end with a multi-petalled flower head. The long, narrow blade is slightly curved on the lower edge and comes to a blunt point at the end. blue. object type: Knife with steel blade, silver ferrule, and soft-paste porcelain handle, painted underglaze in blue in Berainesque style title: knife NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Rev. G.A. Schneider, Cambridge; sold Sotheby's, 4 June 1942, Catalogue of European Ceramics and Glass comprising the interesting and extensive collection of the Rev. G.A. Schneider, p. 18, part of lot 84; the lot sold for £10 to Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, by whom given to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82183 CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, first half# CREATORS -------- maker: Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory maker: uncertain DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 26.5 CITATIONS -------- Porcelaines de Saint-Cloud Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1690-1766 The Howard Neville Collection of Early Works of Art and Textiles, Together with Selected Other Properties ---