- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Metal potters knife with bone handle
- Cultural groups
- French
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1800-1880?, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?By 1880
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Bone, Material Metal, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 220 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.36.18 PR no.: 313/ 12191
Search terms: Tool, Pottery, Potter's Tool, Knife
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