Title
A pair of silver butter knives
Year/Period
1946
Region
England
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts.
Accession No.
2023-00468
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the family in memory of Mr Boon Yoon Chiang and Mrs Goldaline Boon
This pair of silver butter knives manufactured by C. Robathan & Sons, Birmingham, England, belonged to a Peranakan family in Singapore. Items such as these illustrate the increasingly Westernised lifestyles of the Chinese Peranakan community during the 20th century and would have complemented other tabletop items of European origin, such as English transferware dinner services.
