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Lot 1135 Dα

A knife in a silver-mounted sheath

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 600 €
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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.