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This object and one other are part of a set whose first object is Album, Designs for Knife Handles.

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Print, Design for Two Knife Handles

This is a Print. It was after Francesco Salviati and engraved by Cherubino Alberti. It is dated 1583 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is engraving on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

  • Cheese Knife
  • chromium-plated brass.
  • Gift of George R. Kravis II.
  • 2015-5-10

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 25.2 x 11.7 cm (9 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Print, Design for Two Knife Handles; After Francesco Salviati (Italian, 1510 – 1563); Engraved by Cherubino Alberti (Italian, 1553–1615); Previously owned by Jean Léon Decloux (French, 1840–1929); Italy; engraving on off-white laid paper; Platemark: 25.2 x 11.7 cm (9 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-350-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.

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