Historic cutlery
Introduction 7
The Dark Ages 8
The history of the development of the fork and
the fork and knife place setting 14
Dating and determining the geographical
provenance of antique cutlery 23
Structuring the collection and the
bibliography 27
COLOUR PLATES, PART 1:
FROM THE STONE AGE ON INTO THE 18TH CENTURY
I. From the Stone Age to the late Roman empire 32
II From the early Middle Ages to about 1600 41
III Spoons 73
IV. Cutlery, l7th/l8th centuries with metal handles:
Silver, brass, bronze, pewter, steel 87
V. Cutlery, 17th/18th centuries
with handles of shell, coral, amber, enamel, glass, glass beads,
aventurine glass, millefiori glass, agate, chalcedony, jasper,
jet, marble, mother of pearl, tortoiseshell 117
Habaner work 135
VI. Cutlery, 17th/18th centuries
with handles of wood, ivory, bone, horn 147
Figurative handles 148
Non-representational handles 162
VII. Hunting and vernacular cutlery 178
VIII. Utensils, 17th/18th centuries 199
COLOUR PLATES, PART 2:
TABLE CUTLERY OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES
IX. Table and boxed cutlery, 18th century 210
X. Table cutlery, 18th century Porcelain, faience 255
XI. The austere form of Neo-Classicism
Table cutlery, late 18th and early 19th centuries 277
Knife handles:
vertical reeding, fluted 278
round, oval, angular, octagonal, hexagonal, flat 286
horizontal reeding 308
tapering (grooved, faceted, oval, flat) 317
threaded, pierced, bright-cut engraved,
pictorial and geometric decoration 328
XII. Between Neo-Classicism and Historicism
Biedermeier, the Victorian style. the Louis Philippe style 340
COLOUR PLATES, PART 3:
HISTORICISM, ART NOUVEAU, NEW OBJECTIVITY
XIII. Historicism 352
Some thoughts on historicism 353
XIV. Art Nouveau 367
The colour plates 368
The classification of Art Nouveau cutlery 369
Geometric 378
Floral forms and decoration 473
Animal and human 499
Historicizing decoration and form 506
XV. New Objectivity 515
COLLECTION CATALOGUE, PARTS 1-3 541
Marks Tables and Indexes 631
Bibliography 655
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