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Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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rials are the precious metals, alloys, tin, bone,horn, wood, &c.; very often, the handle and the bowl are of differentmaterials. Plate 231. The Spoon. 1. Egyptian. 2—12. Antique, bronze, (ligulae), Pompeii.13—14. Mediaeval, hammered copper, 13th century, 6V4 ins. long, Pierrefonds castle.15—16. Mediaeval, tin, 12th century, 6^/4 ins. long. 17. Mediaeval, chased and hammered brass, 5^8 ^^^- long,Pierrefonds castle. 18. Folding Pocket-spoon, 15th century, 4^/3 ins. long, ClunyMuseum, Paris, (Viollet-le-Duc). 19. Renascence, South Kensington Museum, London. 20. Renascence, silver, terminating in a Madonna, 6^/^ ins. long,Cluny Museum, Paris. 21. German, folding Pocket-spoon, 16th century, 7 ins. long.Dziatinska collection. 22. Renascence, folding Pocket-spoon silver, B/g ins. long, ClunyMuseum, Paris. 23. Renascence, bowl of agate, handle of copper gilt, 51/3 ins.,Cluny Museum, Paris. (Lart pour tons). 24. Double-spoon, bronze, Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg. METAL OBJECTS. 399
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The Spoon. Plate 231. 400 The Spoon. — The Knife, and the Fork. 25. Persian, from an inkstand, 17th century, 4^/^ ins. long^Dnhousset collection, (Lavt pour tous). 26. Persian, 17th century, 4V4 ins. long, Duhousset collection^(Lart pour tous). 27. German, tin, inscription: Trink und is, Gott nit vergis\United collections, Carlsruhe. 28. Modern, French, (Gewerbehalle). 29. Modern, silver gilt and enamelled, by the architect F. OSchulze, (Gewerbehalle). 30. Modern, silver, by F. Seitz. The Knife and the Fork. (Plate 232.) Knives and Forks, unlike Spoons, are of comparatively lateintroduction as table utensils. Although it is probable that theywere in use at a very early j^eriod as kitchen utensils for carvingfood, still they did not attain the rank of a recognised dinner setuntil the art of eating had reached a certain refinement. It has beenmaintained that Knives and Forks appeared on dinner tables towardsthe close of the Roman Empire. In our own country it can beproved that they di

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