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Traveling Garniture (Besteck)
German
Object Place: Europe, Germany
Medium/Technique
Ivory or bone, steel
Dimensions
Overall (spoon): 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.) Overall (knife): 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.) Overall (fork): 17.8 cm (7 in.)
Credit Line
Otis Norcross Fund
Accession Number60.951a-d
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CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsUtensils
DescriptionKnife: steel blade, ivory handle, the Young Bacchus carved in the round, wreathed and girded with grape leaves, holding grapes and goblet draped with goat skin, supported by grapevine; split in ivory pedestal. Spoon: Venus holding a heart bowl and stem of silver-gilt punched with foliate patterns, marks of maker and of Augsburg. Fork: steel, 2 pronged, Ceres holding sickle and cornacopia. In original fitted leather case (d) decorated with gilt reinceaux, chamois lined. Collection of Grand Duke of Baden; exhibited in Karlsruhe in 1881 (cat no 664).
ProvenanceGrand Duke of Baden, Karlsruhe, Germany [see note 1]. By 1960, Phillip B. Mayer, London; 1960, sold by Mayer to the MFA for £225. (Accession date: September 21, 1960)
Notes:
[1] According to notes in the curatorial file, the set was in the collection of the Grand Duke of Baden and was exhibited in Karlsruhe in 1881 (catalogue no. 664).
Notes:
[1] According to notes in the curatorial file, the set was in the collection of the Grand Duke of Baden and was exhibited in Karlsruhe in 1881 (catalogue no. 664).