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With their graceful mother-of-pearl handles, embellished with paste “rubies” and gilt messing, this knife and fork are referred to as “Habaner” work, a term used for art made by descendants of refugees who had settled in Hungary during the sixteenth century fleeing from religious persecution in the Austrian province of Tyrol.
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Title: Table knife and fork
Date: late 17th century
Culture: Hungarian
Medium: Steel, mother-of-pearl, paste
Dimensions:
Length (fork .26): 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm);
Length (knife .27): 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Steel
Credit Line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891
Object Number: 91.16.26, .27
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