Butter Knife, Le Louvre Pattern
Reed & Barton
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Silverplate
DATES
Patented July 31, 1888
DIMENSIONS
6 15/16 x 1 x 1/4 in. (17.6 x 2.54 x 0.55 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
1996.136
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Joseph V. Garry
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Scimitar-shaped flat blade engraved with paired leaves with two clusters of three berries and one large open flower with eight petals. Blade narrows to undecorated narrow band at handle join, straight sided handle that faces toward end with rounded shoulders and band dipped, molded with a continuous spiral with an intertwined floral tendril that terminates at the end of the handle with asymetrical curving fronds
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Reed & Barton (American, 1840–present). Butter Knife, Le Louvre Pattern, Patented July 31, 1888. Silverplate
, 6 15/16 x 1 x 1/4 in. (17.6 x 2.54 x 0.55 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Joseph V. Garry, 1996.136. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1996.136_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 1996.136_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2008
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