Table knife
With their graceful handle decorated with mother-of-pearl, these implements are referred to as “Habaner” work, a term used for cutlery hafts made by descendants of refugees who had settled in Hungary during the sixteenth century fleeing from religious persecution in the Austrian province of Tyrol.
Artwork Details
- Title: Table knife
- Date: ca. 1700
- Culture: Hungarian
- Medium: Steel; mother of pearl, stained horn, brass
- Dimensions: Length (knife .51): 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
- Classification: Metalwork-Steel
- Credit Line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891
- Object Number: 91.16.51
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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