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Lot 1105 Dα

A knife in a silver-mounted sheath

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 700 €

A knife in a silver-mounted sheath

Engraved with female figures amid tendrils and flowerheads, the terminal formed as a dog. The silver-mountings of the original shagreen case with corresponding decoration. L of knife 18.5 cm.
Hoorn, 1761, with an unidentified maker's mark “D.M.”.

Literature

Cf. ter Molen, Fries Goud en Zilver, Groningen 2014, no. 243 f.. and Marquardt, Europäisches Essbesteck, Stuttgart 1997, no. 311.