GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This cake knife is representative of the high quality of U.S. flatware design after the Civil War. Besides its fine bright-cut, pierced, and applied decoration, it is also well engineered, with teeth on the back of the blade to allow the server to cut through a cake's icing neatly.
Adapted from
Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 337.
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TMS Updates - GeoXrefs - place of origin
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I removed a technique ("bright-cut") from the Medium display field in TMS and added it as a Getty Vocabularies term.
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I entered the following as a TMS text entry: Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 337.
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General Description
This cake knife is representative of the high quality of U.S. flatware design after the Civil War. Besides its fine bright-cut, pierced, and applied decoration, it is also well engineered, with teeth on the back of the blade to allow the server to cut through a cake's icing neatly.
Adapted from
Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 337.
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Notes
TMS Updates - GeoXrefs - place of origin
Add image, added tags - 8/31 (JBA)
I removed a technique ("bright-cut") from the Medium display field in TMS and added it as a Getty Vocabularies term.
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, and Published References in TMS.
I entered the following as a TMS text entry: Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 337.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
1992.7.6
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Until 1993: The V. Stephen Vaughan Collection, Chelsea, Massachusetts
From 1993: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from the above
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