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Fork and Knife with Child, Drapery and Fruit
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The ivory handles of these dining utensils are carved with appropriate subjects- two youths holding baskets of fruit on their shoulders, standing on peapod bases.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Dieppe (Place of Origin)
Measurements
fork: 6 7/8 x 13/16 in. (17.4 x 2 cm);
knife: 7 13/16 x 13/16 in. (19.8 x 2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
VO.107 (71.366, 71.367)