Knife and fork
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Detail
Ebony and electroplate
Knife: 17.5 cm (long)
Fork: 16.5 cm (long)
British, circa 1900
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Marked
‘MISS CRANSTON’S’ on blade of knife
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Provenance
Supplied to Miss Catherine Cranston for one of her Glasgow Tea Rooms; Argyle Street Tea Rooms (1898), Ingram Street Tea Rooms (1900) or the Willow Tea Rooms (1903).
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Literature
Thomas Howarth, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement, 1952, pl. 51 (for a knife and fork of this pattern, attributed to Mackintosh)
Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs, 1879, 2009 edn, for example p. 153, 1903.J (where cutlery of this pattern can be seen in situ in the Willow Tea Rooms).
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Notes
There is no evidence to establish who designed and made this iconic cutlery, a view confirmed by Roger Billcliffe.