Knife Handle (manche de couteau)

Knife Handle (manche de couteau)

LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Flatware—France—18th century | Cutlery—France—18th Century | Knives—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Flowers in art

Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | cutlery | knives | gilding-technique | porcelain painting (image-making) | flower (motif)

35mm color slide of a knife handle (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). It has a white ground color, and is painted with small blue, pink, and orange flowers. The edges are gilded. The number 20 is handwritten on the slide.

Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)

Seattle Art Museum Libraries

18th century (date of object)

May 1990 (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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English | French

still image

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

slide, scanned using an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner at 3200 dpi.