knife handle



knife handle

Summary

Ribbed pistol shaped knife handle tapering toward blade end, with pierced hole at butt end. Fine red-brown and white marbled agate earthenware, giving regular pattern of very fine red-brown concentric loops along length of handle, red-brown bleeding into lead glaze.


Object Name

knife handle

Date Created

c 1750=1760

Dimensions

handle: 2.5cm

accession number

1956.222/2

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

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