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).
mid to late 19th century
14th–15th centuries, with later additions
mid-19th century
about 1872
about 1850
about 1820
about 1800
19th century
about 1850