Knife Box

This type of knife case, one of a set of three, was popular in England beginning in the late seventeenth century, and cases like this one, veneered with mahogany and embellished with silver mounts, were popular there in the late eighteenth century. The rare New York attribution of this box is substantiated by the tulip poplar secondary wood and the silver mounts bearing the mark, Fueter, for one of the families of New York silversmiths. Their Rococo manner suggests that the mounts were made by Lewis Fueter or his brother, Daniel. Knife cases were generally sold in pairs, but also like these, in sets of three.

(See 54.24.1–.3 for set.)