{"id":3031,"date":"2021-07-27T18:53:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T18:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2024-10-23T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T16:06:40","slug":"tools-of-the-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/tools-of-the-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools of the Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-margin-top:20px;--awb-background-color:#b3b3b3;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1525\" height=\"11\" alt=\"section divider\" title=\"Double stroke\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-200x1.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-400x3.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-600x4.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-800x6.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-1200x9.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-margin-top-small:5px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:10px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:50;line-height:.9;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*Tools of the Trade*<\/strong><\/p><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1525\" height=\"11\" alt=\"section divider\" title=\"Double stroke\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-200x1.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-400x3.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-600x4.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-800x6.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-1200x9.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:50px;--awb-padding-bottom:50px;--awb-margin-top:50px;--awb-background-color:#b3b3b3;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-3 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1525\" height=\"11\" alt=\"section divider\" title=\"Double stroke\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-200x1.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-400x3.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-600x4.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-800x6.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-1200x9.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-margin-top-small:5px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:10px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:50;line-height:.9;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*Tools of the Trade*<\/strong><\/p><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-4 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1525\" height=\"11\" alt=\"section divider\" title=\"Double stroke\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-200x1.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-400x3.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-600x4.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-800x6.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-1200x9.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-background-color:#b3b3b3;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4171\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/unnamed-200x223.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/unnamed.png 261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/>arving tools were both functional and symbolic; their precious materials and iconography added drama and elegance to a meal. Surviving cutlery from the early modern period is challenging to assign to a particular country or region. Most collections skew toward objects of outstanding craftsmanship, selecting for items made of costly luxury materials such as gold, silver, ivory, or mother-of-pearl. Carving sets of companion knives and forks are sometimes difficult to distinguish from smaller personal utensils since sizing was not standardized. Personal forks were not routinely used until the seventeenth century in most of Europe, with Italians leading the trend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utensil sets designed specifically for carving often feature forks with two long tines, designed to spear the food securely so that it could be carved while held aloft for maximum theatrical effect. Knife blades, generally of steel, sometimes feature makers\u2019 marks, but years of sharpening and polishing have worn these marks down and they are often hard to identify. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-right:5%;--awb-margin-left:5%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-5 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/02\/RT-030-copy-vertical.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[74dd62efecefbde368b]\" data-caption=\"Carving knife and fork, Southern Germany, 19th century. Steel and buckhorn. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893, 93.13.5,6.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"437\" alt=\"A knife and two-pronged fork, both featuring an intricately carved ivory handle with a sculpted face at the top.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/RT-030-copy-1200x437.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-4225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/RT-030-copy-200x73.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/RT-030-copy-400x146.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/RT-030-copy-600x219.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/RT-030-copy-800x291.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/RT-030-copy-1200x437.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2021\/07\/RT-030-copy.png 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 sitecaptions\"><p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span>Carving knife and fork, Southern Germany, 19th century. Steel and buckhorn. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893, 93.13.5,6.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:25px;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-6 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1525\" height=\"11\" alt=\"section divider\" title=\"Double stroke\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-200x1.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-400x3.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-600x4.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-800x6.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-1200x9.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:50px;--awb-margin-bottom:50px;--awb-background-color:#b3b3b3;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span class=\"smalltitle\"><strong>*A Sharper Edge* <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of four illustrations of kitchen interiors in Bartolomeo Scappi\u2019s <em>Opera<\/em>, this woodcut depicts various functional elements, including a basin for dishes waiting to be washed, a large wooden tub for live fish, and a well. Against the back wall is a large foot-powered wheel for sharpening knives, labeled Rotatore. Knives of different sizes, perhaps awaiting their turn at the wheel, are laid out on a work table at the front of the room. Similar tools are also catalogued on the page titled \u201cDiversi coltelli\u201d from the same book, displayed together.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-bottom:-10px;\"><p><span class=\"smalltitle\"><strong>*A Sharper Edge* <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of four illustrations of kitchen interiors in Bartolomeo Scappi\u2019s <em>Opera<\/em>, this woodcut depicts various functional elements, including a basin for dishes waiting to be washed, a large wooden tub for live fish, and a well. Against the back wall is a large foot-powered wheel for sharpening knives, labeled Rotatore. Knives of different sizes, perhaps awaiting their turn at the wheel, are laid out on a work table at the front of the room. Similar tools are also catalogued on the page titled \u201cDiversi coltelli\u201d from the same book, displayed together.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-7 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-044-Scappi_1596_Loggia-copy2.jpg\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[75c969b9f8d813a57b2]\" data-caption=\"Bartolomeo Scappi, \u201cLoggia,\u201d from Opera . . . (Venice: V. Pelagalo, 1596). Woodcut. Courtesy the New York Academy of Medicine Library, RB.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Illustration depicting an exterior kitchen space with two workers. One is sharpening knives on a stone wheel in the background while the other stands washing dishes. A well, hanging animal carcasses, and a large basin filled with fish are also visible.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-044-Scappi_1596_Loggia-copy2-400x550.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-044-Scappi_1596_Loggia-copy2-200x275.jpg 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-044-Scappi_1596_Loggia-copy2-400x550.jpg 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-044-Scappi_1596_Loggia-copy2-600x825.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-044-Scappi_1596_Loggia-copy2-800x1100.jpg 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-044-Scappi_1596_Loggia-copy2-1200x1651.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-044-Scappi_1596_Loggia-copy2.jpg 1563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:-10px;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bartolomeo Scappi, \u201cLoggia,\u201d from <em>Opera<\/em> . . . (Venice: V. Pelagalo, 1596). Woodcut. Courtesy the New York Academy of Medicine Library, RB.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6 fusion-no-small-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:-110%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bartolomeo Scappi, \u201cLoggia\u201d and \u201cDiversi coltelli,\u201d from <em>Opera<\/em> . . . (Venice: V. Pelagalo, 1596). Woodcut. Courtesy the New York Academy of Medicine Library, RB.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-8 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-045-Scappi_1596_Cotelli-copy.jpg\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[607de4e2cf50e1f6898]\" data-caption=\"Bartolomeo Scappi, \u201cDiversi coltelli,\u201d from Opera . . . (Venice: V. Pelagalo, 1596). Woodcut. Courtesy the New York Academy of Medicine Library, RB.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1563\" height=\"2150\" alt=\"An illustration of various carving tools labelled in Italian to identify their purpose.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-045-Scappi_1596_Cotelli-copy.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-045-Scappi_1596_Cotelli-copy-200x275.jpg 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-045-Scappi_1596_Cotelli-copy-400x550.jpg 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-045-Scappi_1596_Cotelli-copy-600x825.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-045-Scappi_1596_Cotelli-copy-800x1100.jpg 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-045-Scappi_1596_Cotelli-copy-1200x1651.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-045-Scappi_1596_Cotelli-copy.jpg 1563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:5px;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bartolomeo Scappi, \u201cDiversi coltelli,\u201d from Opera . . . (Venice: V. Pelagalo, 1596). Woodcut. Courtesy the New York Academy of Medicine Library, RB.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_2_5 2_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:40%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:60px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:60px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:50px;--awb-margin-bottom:-5px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beautiful hand coloring in this unique copy of the first edition of Bartolomeo Scappi\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opera<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> suggests that the illustrations were perceived as more than a visual shopping list for setting up a proper kitchen. They might be compared to still-life paintings depicting kitchen utensils that were popular in seventeenth-century Europe. Before printing in full color was widely available, many book illustrations were hand-colored by specially trained artists. This copy was colored sometime before it entered the G\u00f6ttingen library in the eighteenth century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A later edition of Scappi\u2019s cookbook replaced the original copper-plate engravings with woodcuts, which were cheaper to create, as seen above in the same image of knives and other sharp implements.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-right:-5%;--awb-margin-left:-5%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-9 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[73d1f9c64d2babb57f2]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"988\" alt=\"A colored illustration of various carving tools labelled in Italian to identify their purpose.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy-200x268.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy-400x536.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy-600x804.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy.png 737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-right:-5%;--awb-margin-left:-5%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-10 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"988\" alt=\"A colored illustration of various carving tools labelled in Italian to identify their purpose.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy-200x268.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy-400x536.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy-600x804.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-080-00000012-copy.png 737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility subthemecaptions\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bartolomeo Scappi, \u201cDiversi Coltelli,\u201d from <em>Opera<\/em> . . . , plate 13 (Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1570). Hand-colored engraving. Nieders\u00e4chsische Staats- und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek G\u00f6ttingen, Manuscripts and Rare Prints\/University Archives 8 OEC I, 3660 RARA.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-10 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beautiful hand coloring in this unique copy of the first edition of Bartolomeo Scappi\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opera<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> suggests that the illustrations were perceived as more than a visual shopping list for setting up a proper kitchen. They might be compared to still-life paintings depicting kitchen utensils that were popular in seventeenth-century Europe. Before printing in full color was widely available, many book illustrations were hand-colored by specially trained artists. This copy was colored sometime before it entered the G\u00f6ttingen library in the eighteenth century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A later edition of Scappi\u2019s cookbook replaced the original copper-plate engravings with woodcuts, which were cheaper to create, as seen above in the same image of knives and other sharp implements.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-11 fusion-no-small-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:5%;--awb-margin-left:5%;\"><p><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Left: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bartolomeo Scappi, \u201cDiversi Coltelli,\u201d from <em>Opera<\/em> . . . , plate 13 (Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1570). Hand-colored engraving. Nieders\u00e4chsische Staats- und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek G\u00f6ttingen, Manuscripts and Rare Prints\/University Archives 8 OEC I, 3660 RARA.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:30px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-12 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are modern replicas of the kitchen knives illustrated in Bartolomeo Scappi\u2019s influential recipe book. Instructions found in many of the carving manuals recommend they be kept scrupulously clean and lethally sharpened. Each knife had different functions as the labels reveal:<em> ostreghine<\/em> for opening oysters; <em>smembratori<\/em> for dismembering; <em>coltella da torta<\/em> for cutting cakes; and <em>coltelli da pasta<\/em> for shaping pasta dough. Such advanced equipment required skilled artisans to make it and highly trained staff to use it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-13 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:-10px;--awb-margin-bottom:-15px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are modern replicas of the kitchen knives illustrated in Bartolomeo Scappi\u2019s influential recipe book. Instructions found in many of the carving manuals recommend they be kept scrupulously clean and lethally sharpened. Each knife had different functions as the labels reveal:<em> ostreghine<\/em> for opening oysters; <em>smembratori<\/em> for dismembering; <em>coltella da torta<\/em> for cutting cakes; and <em>coltelli da pasta<\/em> for shaping pasta dough. Such advanced equipment required skilled artisans to make it and highly trained staff to use it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-9 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:30px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-11 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-002-Cooksknives_2_201906_kly25_mas-copy-1.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[26307fb307114adbf3a]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1479\" height=\"693\" alt=\"A set of carving knives featuring steel blades of different shapes and sizes and wooden handles secured with rivets.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-002-Cooksknives_2_201906_kly25_mas-copy-1.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-002-Cooksknives_2_201906_kly25_mas-copy-1-200x94.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-002-Cooksknives_2_201906_kly25_mas-copy-1-400x187.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-002-Cooksknives_2_201906_kly25_mas-copy-1-600x281.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-002-Cooksknives_2_201906_kly25_mas-copy-1-800x375.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-002-Cooksknives_2_201906_kly25_mas-copy-1-1200x562.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-002-Cooksknives_2_201906_kly25_mas-copy-1.png 1479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-14 fusion-no-small-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:5%;--awb-margin-left:5%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danilo Leon Todeschini, replica knives, after Bartolomeo Scappi, <em>Opera<\/em> . . ., 2016. Wood and steel. Private collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-15 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:5%;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-margin-left:5%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danilo Leon Todeschini, replica knives, after Bartolomeo Scappi, <em>Opera<\/em> . . ., 2016. Wood and steel. Private collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-10 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:25px;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-12 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1525\" height=\"11\" alt=\"section divider\" title=\"Double stroke\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-200x1.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-400x3.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-600x4.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-800x6.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-1200x9.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-11 fusion_builder_column_2_5 2_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:40%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:4.8%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:4.8%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-16 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span class=\"smalltitle\"><strong>*Carving Sets* <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternating bands of horn and bone form the lower portion of the handles of this imposing knife and fork, likely made for carving at the table or on the hunt. Broad brass bolsters border punched brass panels on the hilt. Steel rivets fasten the tang, which extends fully into the butt. The curved shape of the fork is very distinctive, recalling antlers or horns.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-17 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-bottom:-20px;\"><p><span class=\"smalltitle\"><strong>*Carving Sets* <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternating bands of horn and bone form the lower portion of the handles of this imposing knife and fork, likely made for carving at the table or on the hunt. Broad brass bolsters border punched brass panels on the hilt. Steel rivets fasten the tang, which extends fully into the butt. The curved shape of the fork is very distinctive, recalling antlers or horns.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-12 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-13 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/02\/RT-189-vertical-copy-e1681846085159.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[7669256e5ff9dd0d83d]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"829\" height=\"288\" alt=\"A carving knife and fork set with similar handles featuring bands of brass, horn, and bone.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/02\/RT-189.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-4892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/02\/RT-189-200x69.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/02\/RT-189-400x139.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/02\/RT-189-600x208.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/02\/RT-189-800x278.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/02\/RT-189.png 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-18 subthemecaptions\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fork and knife, Germany, 17th century. Steel, brass, horn, and bone. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Museum, The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, Gift of Eleanor L.Metzenberg, 1985-103-10, 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-13 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-19 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-bottom:25px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The handles on both fork and knife feature high relief figures of walrus ivory representing Faith, holding scales; Hope, with an anchor; and Charity, with a cross and children at her feet. Kneeling horses, their riders broken off, crown both implements, suggest- ing chivalric themes. Both fork and knife are forged of sturdy steel with a silver collar marking the transition from handle to blade. Related pairs have different top elements, with lions or human heads, suggesting a common workshop.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:5px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-14 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-034-DP-21041-079-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[7d23ecc1260a16510c1]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"190\" alt=\"A carving fork and knife set with intricately carved ivory handles depicting human figures around the hilt and topped by a horse and rider.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-034-DP-21041-079-HZLt-copy-600x190.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-034-DP-21041-079-HZLt-copy-200x63.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-034-DP-21041-079-HZLt-copy-400x126.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-034-DP-21041-079-HZLt-copy-600x190.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-034-DP-21041-079-HZLt-copy-800x253.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-034-DP-21041-079-HZLt-copy-1200x379.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-034-DP-21041-079-HZLt-copy.png 1380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-no-small-visibility fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-20 subthemecaptions\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carving knife and fork, Netherlands, possibly Friesland, Late 17th\u2013early 18th century. Steel, walrus ivory, and silver. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893, 93.13.91, 92.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-14 fusion_builder_column_2_5 2_5 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:40%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:4.8%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:4.8%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-21\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:10px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The handles on both fork and knife feature high relief figures of walrus ivory representing Faith, holding scales; Hope, with an anchor; and Charity, with a cross and children at her feet. Kneeling horses, their riders broken off, crown both implements, suggest- ing chivalric themes. Both fork and knife are forged of sturdy steel with a silver collar marking the transition from handle to blade. Related pairs have different top elements, with lions or human heads, suggesting a common workshop.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-15 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:45%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:4.2666666666667%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:4.2666666666667%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-22 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:10px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This knife and fork are probably examples of Haban wares, made by Hutterites, a sect of Anabaptists who moved as a group between Germany, Austria, and Moravia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although they practiced an ascetic lifestyle, cutlery, ceramics, shoes, and clocks crafted by the Hutterites in collective settings were highly regarded for their skill and quality. The utensils\u2019 handles are secured to the tang by pins visible against the mother-of-pearl. Punched brass bands inlaid with stained horn mark a transition to feather-like pommels.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-23 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:-25px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This knife and fork are probably examples of Haban wares, made by Hutterites, a sect of Anabaptists who moved as a group between Germany, Austria, and Moravia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although they practiced an ascetic lifestyle, cutlery, ceramics, shoes, and clocks crafted by the Hutterites in collective settings were highly regarded for their skill and quality. The utensils\u2019 handles are secured to the tang by pins visible against the mother-of-pearl. Punched brass bands inlaid with stained horn mark a transition to feather-like pommels.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-16 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:55%;--awb-margin-top-large:15px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.4909090909091%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.4909090909091%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-15 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-021-DP-21040-021-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[f39e113d485af0c37d1]\" data-title=\"RT-021 DP-21040-021 copy\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1501\" height=\"390\" alt=\"A carving knife and fork featuring similar mother-of-pearl handles topped with a golden band and a carved horn pommel.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-021-hzn-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-021-hzn-copy-200x52.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-021-hzn-copy-400x104.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-021-hzn-copy-600x156.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-021-hzn-copy-800x208.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-021-hzn-copy-1200x312.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-021-hzn-copy.png 1501w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-24 subthemecaptions\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knife and fork, Italy, 17th century. Steel, mother-of-pearl, stained horn, and brass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891, 91.16. 50, 51.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-17 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:55%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.4909090909091%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.4909090909091%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-25 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:10px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The design of these knife and fork handles has been attributed to the circle of Swiss goldsmith Hans Peter Oeri. The handles of twisted brass terminate in basilisk heads and were likely cast in two parts, then assembled and chased. The long twin prongs of the fork suggest that this set may have been used by a carver, perhaps for fruit or small birds. The saber-like steel blade, indented and waved, bears an inlaid maker\u2019s mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-16 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-020-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[0abad5037c2329dbff9]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1394\" height=\"409\" alt=\"A steel carving knife and fork featuring brass handles with a braided design ending in a basilisk head.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-020-hzn-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-020-hzn-copy-200x59.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-020-hzn-copy-400x117.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-020-hzn-copy-600x176.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-020-hzn-copy-800x235.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-020-hzn-copy-1200x352.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-020-hzn-copy.png 1394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-26 subthemecaptions\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knife and fork, Italy, 17th century. Steel and brass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893, 93.13.19, 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-18 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:45%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:4.2666666666667%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:4.2666666666667%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-27 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:10px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The design of these knife and fork handles has been attributed to the circle of Swiss goldsmith Hans Peter Oeri. The handles of twisted brass terminate in basilisk heads and were likely cast in two parts, then assembled and chased. The long twin prongs of the fork suggest that this set may have been used by a carver, perhaps for fruit or small birds. The saber-like steel blade, indented and waved, bears an inlaid maker\u2019s mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-19 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:30px;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-17 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1525\" height=\"11\" alt=\"section divider\" title=\"Double stroke\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-200x1.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-400x3.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-600x4.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-800x6.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke-1200x9.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/01\/Double-stroke.png 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-20 fusion_builder_column_2_5 2_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:40%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:4.8%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:4.8%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-28 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span class=\"smalltitle\"><strong>*Knives and Forks* <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This double-edged steel blade is engraved with a decorative border that calls attention to the serrations on its spine, designed for sawing through foods with thick or resistant surfaces. The serrations mark off the part of the knife meant to be sharpened. A brass panel is inlaid on the bolster. The handle is fashioned from undulating gadrooned bulbous forms of horn alternating with horizontal stripes of brass. It terminates in a finial that anchors the tang, the part of the blade that extends into the handle.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-29 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-bottom:-20px;\"><p><span class=\"smalltitle\"><strong>*Knives and Forks* <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This double-edged steel blade is engraved with a decorative border that calls attention to the serrations on its spine, designed for sawing through foods with thick or resistant surfaces. The serrations mark off the part of the knife meant to be sharpened. A brass panel is inlaid on the bolster. The handle is fashioned from undulating gadrooned bulbous forms of horn alternating with horizontal stripes of brass. It terminates in a finial that anchors the tang, the part of the blade that extends into the handle.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-21 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-18 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-191-diagonal-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[2d44aefb12f7d502d5c]\" data-caption=\"Knife, Possibly Spain, ca. 1700. Steel, brass, and horn. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, Gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg, 1985-103-14.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"3341\" height=\"1354\" alt=\"A carving knife with a serrated edge along its spine and an engraved floral designs on the flat side of the blade. The hilt features alternating segments of horn and brass.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-191-diag2-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-191-diag2-copy-200x81.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-191-diag2-copy-400x162.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-191-diag2-copy-600x243.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-191-diag2-copy-800x324.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-191-diag2-copy-1200x486.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-191-diag2-copy.png 3341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-30 subthemecaptions\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knife, possibly Spain, ca. 1700. Steel, brass, and horn. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, Gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg, 1985-103-14.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-22 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-31 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-bottom:40px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A German inscription etched into the brass hilt of this two-tined fork may be a proverb or moralizing verse referring to the pleasures of roasted wild game. Additional motifs such as a deer and a female figure wearing a kerchief and an apron suggest it was used in a rustic context. The small size recalls the kinds of forks used by carvers in the illustrated manuals to spear roast fowl or fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-20px;--awb-margin-bottom:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-19 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-027-diag-copy-2.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[1c7de1cf9f3130eeb44]\" data-caption=\"Fork, Possibly Switzerland, Late 17th century. Steel and brass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891, 91.16.96.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1354\" height=\"567\" alt=\"A carving fork with two prongs and a decorative brass handle featuring carved animal and floral motifs.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-027-diag-copy-2-1.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-027-diag-copy-2-1-200x84.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-027-diag-copy-2-1-400x168.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-027-diag-copy-2-1-600x251.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-027-diag-copy-2-1-800x335.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-027-diag-copy-2-1-1200x503.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-027-diag-copy-2-1.png 1354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-32 subthemecaptions\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fork, possibly Switzerland, Late 17th century. Steel and brass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891, 91.16.96.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-23 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:37%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.1891891891892%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.1891891891892%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-33\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A German inscription etched into the brass hilt of this two-tined fork may be a proverb or moralizing verse referring to the pleasures of roasted wild game. Additional motifs such as a deer and a female figure wearing a kerchief and an apron suggest it was used in a rustic context. The small size recalls the kinds of forks used by carvers in the illustrated manuals to spear roast fowl or fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-24 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:80%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.4%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.4%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-34 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prints were an important source of motifs for a variety of objects in the early modern period. The ivory handle of this knife takes the form of a muscular male torso with an upturned face and foliate skirt, scrolls replacing his arms. The figure is reminiscent of architectural prints by the Flemish artist Hans Vredeman de Vries. A piece of ivory appears to have fallen off the front of the figure, while the back is intact. The double-edged blade has an elegant scroll-like detail on the spine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-35 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:10px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prints were an important source of motifs for a variety of objects in the early modern period. The ivory handle of this knife takes the form of a muscular male torso with an upturned face and foliate skirt, scrolls replacing his arms. The figure is reminiscent of architectural prints by the Flemish artist Hans Vredeman de Vries. A piece of ivory appears to have fallen off the front of the figure, while the back is intact. The double-edged blade has an elegant scroll-like detail on the spine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-20 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-vert-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[23f3bac23fd1232b828]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"546\" alt=\"A carving knife with a jagged cutting edge and an ivory handle shaped like a human head and torso.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-DP-21041-132-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-DP-21041-132-copy-200x55.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-DP-21041-132-copy-400x109.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-DP-21041-132-copy-600x164.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-DP-21041-132-copy-800x218.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-DP-21041-132-copy-1200x328.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-DP-21041-132-copy.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-25 fusion_builder_column_1_5 1_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:20%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:50px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:9.6%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-10px;--awb-margin-right:16%;--awb-margin-left:16%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-21 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-detail-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[507949f59851950d1b6]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"165\" height=\"600\" alt=\"An intricate ivory knife hilt carved to resemble an human figure with head tilted back, a naked torso, scrolls in place of arms, and a leaf-shaped skirt.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-detail-copy-165x600.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5315\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-20px;--awb-margin-right:39%;--awb-margin-left:39%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-22 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"1360\" alt=\"An intricate ivory knife hilt carved to resemble an human figure with head tilted back, a naked torso, scrolls in place of arms, and a leaf-shaped skirt.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-detail-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-detail-copy-200x725.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-017-detail-copy.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-26 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:-10px;--awb-spacing-right-large:50px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-36 fusion-no-small-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:5%;--awb-margin-left:5%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above \/ Right: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carving knife, possibly Flanders, first quarter of the 17th century. Ivory and steel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1962, 62.118.1.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-37 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:5%;--awb-margin-left:5%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carving knife, possibly Flanders, first quarter of the 17th century. Ivory and steel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1962, 62.118.1.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-27 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:15px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:64%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:40px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:40px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-38 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:20px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The handle of this long two-tined fork is made from the coronet of an antler where it was once attached to the skull of the deer. Its craggy channels form the beard and hair of a male face recalling those featured on Bartman or Bellarmine stoneware jugs. A banded silver guard anchors the fork\u2019s tang. With its sylvan associations, antler was a desirable material for implements that might help carve or serve the spoils of the hunt.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-23 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-190-vert-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[12026c9dc8ec8386a25]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1134\" alt=\"A two-pronged carving fork with an antler handle carved to resemble the face of a bearded man.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-190-122632_dc0f8180887259f2_x-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-190-122632_dc0f8180887259f2_x-copy-200x91.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-190-122632_dc0f8180887259f2_x-copy-400x181.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-190-122632_dc0f8180887259f2_x-copy-600x272.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-190-122632_dc0f8180887259f2_x-copy-800x363.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-190-122632_dc0f8180887259f2_x-copy-1200x544.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-190-122632_dc0f8180887259f2_x-copy.png 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-39 subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:-5%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fork, mid- to late 18th century. Antler, steel, and silver. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, Gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg, 1985-103-155a.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-28 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-40 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The handle of this long two-tined fork is made from the coronet of an antler where it was once attached to the skull of the deer. Its craggy channels form the beard and hair of a male face recalling those featured on Bartman or Bellarmine stoneware jugs. A banded silver guard anchors the fork\u2019s tang. With its sylvan associations, antler was a desirable material for implements that might help carve or serve the spoils of the hunt.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-29 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:75%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.56%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.56%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-41 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broad, flat blades such as this are often called presentation or serving knives. Attributed to Hans Sumersperger, knifesmith of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, their brass handles are inlaid with strips of bone and walnut that frame central plaques of mother-of-pearl with incised images of the Virgin and Child, the Crucifixion, and various saints. They look similar to Burgundian knife sets that became popular after Maximilian\u2019s marriage to Mary of Burgundy in 1477. Likely part of a set that included knives with sharper blades for slicing, they may have been used on the hunt or in the banquet hall to carve or convey meat to the plates of diners. One of the blades has been repaired.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-42 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-top:15px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broad, flat blades such as this are often called presentation or serving knives. Attributed to Hans Sumersperger, knifesmith of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, their brass handles are inlaid with strips of bone and walnut that frame central plaques of mother-of-pearl with incised images of the Virgin and Child, the Crucifixion, and various saints. They look similar to Burgundian knife sets that became popular after Maximilian\u2019s marriage to Mary of Burgundy in 1477. Likely part of a set that included knives with sharper blades for slicing, they may have been used on the hunt or in the banquet hall to carve or convey meat to the plates of diners. One of the blades has been repaired.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-builder-row-inner fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"--awb-flex-grow:0;--awb-flex-grow-medium:0;--awb-flex-grow-small:0;--awb-flex-shrink:0;--awb-flex-shrink-medium:0;--awb-flex-shrink-small:0;width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-0 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_6 1_6 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:16.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:-5px;--awb-spacing-right-large:11.52%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:10px;--awb-spacing-left-large:11.52%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><a class=\"fb-icon-element-1 fb-icon-element fontawesome-icon fa-microphone-alt fas circle-no fusion-link\" style=\"--awb-iconcolor:#b8062b;--awb-circlecolor:#b3b3b3;--awb-font-size:55px;--awb-margin-top:0;--awb-margin-right:27.5px;--awb-margin-bottom:0;--awb-margin-left:0;--awb-align-self:flex-start;\" href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/bduKMw\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link to https:\/\/qrco.de\/bduKMw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-1 fusion_builder_column_inner_5_6 5_6 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:83.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.304%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:10px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.304%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-43\"><p>Listen to reflections from food historian Ivan Day.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-no-small-visibility fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-24 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[af5efc4db134c72117a]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1179\" height=\"322\" alt=\"Two flat machete shaped blades with golden handles decorated with mother-of-pearl inlay designs.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-copy-200x55.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-copy-400x109.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-copy-600x164.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-copy-800x218.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-copy.png 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1179px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-44 fusion-no-small-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-right:3%;--awb-margin-left:3%;\"><p><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above \/ Right: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attributed to Hans Sumersperger, two serving knives, Austria, 15th-16th century. Steel, brass, wood, bone, mother-of-pearl, and leather. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1951, 51.118.1\u20133.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-30 fusion_builder_column_1_4 1_4 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:25%;--awb-margin-top-large:10px;--awb-spacing-right-large:7.68%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:7.68%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-builder-row-inner fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"--awb-flex-grow:0;--awb-flex-grow-medium:0;--awb-flex-grow-small:0;--awb-flex-shrink:0;--awb-flex-shrink-medium:0;--awb-flex-shrink-small:0;width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-2 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_6 1_6 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:16.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:-5px;--awb-spacing-right-large:10px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:-20px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><a class=\"fb-icon-element-2 fb-icon-element fontawesome-icon fa-microphone-alt fas circle-no fusion-link\" style=\"--awb-iconcolor:#b8062b;--awb-circlecolor:#b3b3b3;--awb-font-size:55px;--awb-align-self:flex-start;--awb-margin-top:-4px;--awb-margin-right:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-margin-left:0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/bduKMw\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link to https:\/\/qrco.de\/bduKMw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-3 fusion_builder_column_inner_5_6 5_6 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:83.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:-15px;--awb-spacing-right-large:-20px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:10px;--awb-spacing-left-large:10px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-45\"><p>Listen to reflections from food historian Ivan Day.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-10px;--awb-margin-right:8%;--awb-margin-left:8%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-25 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-sf51-118-2d3-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[e78bb6c1de158a63f2c]\" data-title=\"RT-007 sf51-118-2d3 copy\" title=\"RT-007 sf51-118-2d3 copy\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"821\" alt=\"Detail of a brass knife hilt featuring a star-shaped cutout pattern and multiple mother-of-pearl inlays designs depicting religious motifs.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-sf51-118-2d3-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-sf51-118-2d3-copy-200x455.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-sf51-118-2d3-copy.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-20px;--awb-margin-right:30%;--awb-margin-left:30%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-26 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Detail of a brass knife hilt featuring a star-shaped cutout pattern and multiple mother-of-pearl inlays designs depicting religious motifs.\" title=\"RT-007 sf51-118-2d3 copy\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-sf51-118-2d3-copy-264x600.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-sf51-118-2d3-copy-200x455.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-007-sf51-118-2d3-copy.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-46 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:25px;--awb-margin-right:5%;--awb-margin-left:5%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attributed to Hans Sumersperger, two serving knives, Austria, 15th-16th century. Steel, brass, wood, bone, mother-of-pearl, and leather. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1951, 51.118.1\u20133.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-31 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:10px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-47 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engraved brass bands alternate with inlaid mother-of-pearl notched wheels on the faceted horn handle of this fork. Its long tines suggest it may have been used for carving smaller birds or fruits in aria as in the illustrations from manuals by Mattia Giegher or Antonio Latini.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-10px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-27 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-188-122634_c625f64b13b0fb4b_x-1-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[9750cc57db7afbd32e1]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1093\" alt=\"A carving fork with two rusty prongs and a wooden handle with ivory and gold inlay patterns and three golden bands.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-188-122634_c625f64b13b0fb4b_x-1-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-188-122634_c625f64b13b0fb4b_x-1-copy-200x87.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-188-122634_c625f64b13b0fb4b_x-1-copy-400x175.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-188-122634_c625f64b13b0fb4b_x-1-copy-600x262.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-188-122634_c625f64b13b0fb4b_x-1-copy-800x350.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-188-122634_c625f64b13b0fb4b_x-1-copy-1200x525.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-188-122634_c625f64b13b0fb4b_x-1-copy.png 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-48 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-right:5%;--awb-margin-left:5%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fork, possibly France, ca. 1650. Steel, horn, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and brass. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, Gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg, 1985-103-59.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-32 fusion_builder_column_2_5 2_5 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:40%;--awb-margin-top-large:15px;--awb-spacing-right-large:4.8%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:4.8%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-49 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engraved brass bands alternate with inlaid mother-of-pearl notched wheels on the faceted horn handle of this fork. Its long tines suggest it may have been used for carving smaller birds or fruits in aria as in the illustrations from manuals by Mattia Giegher or Antonio Latini.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-50 fusion-no-small-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:-5%;\"><p><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Left: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fork, possibly France, ca. 1650. Steel, horn, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and brass. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, Gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg, 1985-103-59.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-33 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:35%;--awb-margin-top-large:15px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.4857142857143%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.4857142857143%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-51 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fashioned from a single piece of steel, the double-edged blade has serrations on the spine and engraved lozenge forms on the bolster. The deeply grooved spiral handle, large knob protruding from the bolster, and front quillon would have enabled a firm grip for the carving of greasy meats, anchoring thumb and forefinger.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-52 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-bottom:-20px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fashioned from a single piece of steel, the double-edged blade has serrations on the spine and engraved lozenge forms on the bolster. The deeply grooved spiral handle, large knob protruding from the bolster, and front quillon would have enabled a firm grip for the carving of greasy meats, anchoring thumb and forefinger.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-34 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:10px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-10px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-28 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-187-diag-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[dc0f80d15e30991e1f0]\" data-caption=\"Knife, Possibly Spain, 16th century. Steel. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, Gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg, 1985-103-14.\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"226\" alt=\"A carving knife made from a single piece of metal featuring a serrated blade and a spiral handle.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-187-diag-2-copy-600x226.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-187-diag-2-copy-200x75.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-187-diag-2-copy-400x151.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-187-diag-2-copy-600x226.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-187-diag-2-copy-800x301.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-187-diag-2-copy-1200x452.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/04\/RT-187-diag-2-copy.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dotted\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#b3b3b3;border-color:#b3b3b3;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-53 subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:-5%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knife, possibly Spain, 16th century. Steel. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, Gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg, 1985-103-14.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-35 fusion_builder_column_1_5 1_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:25px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:20%;--awb-margin-top-large:10px;--awb-spacing-right-large:9.6%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:9.6%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-54 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;--awb-margin-bottom:-5px;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The central roundel of the ivory hilt of this knife depicts a classicizing profile of a warrior, his corkscrew tendrils flowing out from a mask-like helmet. A putto stands above this, his outstretched arms grasping the legs of acrobats clinging to the backs of dragons, from whose gaping maws yet more figures emerge. A female profile on the other side features similar serpentine locks. On the lower section of the handle, another putto balances atop an ovoid form, against a patterned background formed of small oculi. The curved and notched blade is engraved with a foliate pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-10px;--awb-margin-right:8%;--awb-margin-left:8%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-29 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[ca4285a325f7b05cd31]\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"1355\" alt=\"Detail of a carving knife&#039;s ivory handle featuring human and animal figures, a face in profile wearing a helmet, and a nude woman holding a billowing piece of fabric.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy-e1683580299785.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy-e1683580299785-200x459.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy-e1683580299785-400x919.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy-e1683580299785.png 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-36 fusion_builder_column_4_5 4_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:80%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.4%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:-10px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-55 fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:justify;--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The central roundel of the ivory hilt of this knife depicts a classicizing profile of a warrior, his corkscrew tendrils flowing out from a mask-like helmet. A putto stands above this, his outstretched arms grasping the legs of acrobats clinging to the backs of dragons, from whose gaping maws yet more figures emerge. A female profile on the other side features similar serpentine locks. On the lower section of the handle, another putto balances atop an ovoid form, against a patterned background formed of small oculi. The curved and notched blade is engraved with a foliate pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-10px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-30 hover-type-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-vert-copy.png\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[5412a30aad754777a40]\" data-title=\"RT-039 vert copy\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1409\" height=\"264\" alt=\"An ornate knife with a carved ivory hilt featuring human figures and a face in profile. The knife has an engraved pattern along its flat face, a curved blade, and a wavy spine.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-hzn-copy.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-hzn-copy-200x37.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-hzn-copy-400x75.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-hzn-copy-600x112.png 600w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-hzn-copy-800x150.png 800w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-hzn-copy-1200x225.png 1200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-hzn-copy.png 1409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:-10px;--awb-margin-right:32%;--awb-margin-left:32%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-31 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"459\" alt=\"Detail of a carving knife&#039;s ivory handle featuring human and animal figures, a face in profile wearing a helmet, and a nude woman holding a billowing piece of fabric.\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy-e1683580299785-200x459.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-5327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy-e1683580299785-200x459.png 200w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy-e1683580299785-400x919.png 400w, https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/files\/2023\/05\/RT-039-detail-copy-e1683580299785.png 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-37 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:10px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-56 fusion-no-small-visibility subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:3%;--awb-margin-left:3%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knife, Portugal, 16th century. Ivory and steel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, 64.101.1598.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-57 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-text-no-margin subthemecaptions\" style=\"--awb-margin-right:3%;--awb-margin-bottom:-30px;--awb-margin-left:3%;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"directioncaptions\">Above: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knife, Portugal, 16th century. Ivory and steel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, 64.101.1598.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-themehome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5827,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/5827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/stagingthetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}