Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of the Americas: July 2009–June 2011
Knife (part of travel set)
about 1820
Made by Thomas C. Fletcher
Made by Baldwin Gardiner
Of Fletcher & Gardiner
Length x width: 28.3 x 2.5 cm (11 1/8 x 1 in.)
Silver, steel
Classification: Silver flatware
Object Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Accession number: 2010.1001.2
Provenance/Ownership History: At an unknown date, in the collection of Hilda Kohn, possibly London; by 2010, owned by V. Stephen Vaughan, Chelsea, Massachusetts; 2010, given by Vaughan to the MFA
Gift of V. Stephen Vaughan in memory of his grandfathers, William Henry Stephens and Vernon Virginius Vaughan