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Traveling Garniture (Besteck)
Traveling Garniture (Besteck)

Traveling Garniture (Besteck)

Object PlaceGermany
Medium/TechniqueIvory or bone, steel
DimensionsOverall (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 LineOtis Norcross Fund
Accession number60.951a-d
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsUtensils
Collections
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).