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Boxed set of dessert cutlery
(1730-1760)
- Medium
- porcelain (soft-paste)
- Measurements
- 20.6 cm length (each knife) 17.3 cm length (each fork) 16.2 cm length (each spoon)
- Accession Number
- 2024.238
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Christopher Begg in honour of Patricia Begg OAM, 2024
© Public Domain - Gallery location
- 17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Knife boxes stood on the sideboard so that servants could set out fresh cutlery for each new course of a meal. This example contains a fruit service with French porcelain handles and English silver forks, knife blades and spoons. Silver was used for fruit services, as the natural acids in fruit could discolour steel cutlery.