Table knife and fork
Unknown
18th century · Steel, mother-of-pearl, paste · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Steel, mother-of-pearl, paste
- Culture
- Southern German
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891
