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Travelling Cutlery Set
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Comprising two cannon-shaped handles engraved with a continuous pattern of cherubs clamouring amid foliate scrolls within stiff leaf borders, into which screw a steel knife blade and a steel two-pronged fork; and a combination spoon with rat-tail bowl engraved with scrolling foliage and marrow scoop with similar decoration, the two handles and the back of the spoon bowl engraved with the initials G*H; in a fitted shagreen-covered case with wood inset and brass thumbpiece.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
David Berg New York bequest; to the Fogg Museum 1999.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of David Berg
Title: Travelling Cutlery Set
Description:
Comprising two cannon-shaped handles engraved with a continuous pattern of cherubs clamouring amid foliate scrolls within stiff leaf borders, into which screw a steel knife blade and a steel two-pronged fork; and a combination spoon with rat-tail bowl engraved with scrolling foliage and marrow scoop with similar decoration, the two handles and the back of the spoon bowl engraved with the initials G*H; in a fitted shagreen-covered case with wood inset and brass thumbpiece.
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