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 viewClassificationsUtensils
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).
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).
Jens H. Quistgaard
18th century
18th century
Prehistoric