Knife
1631 (dating)
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Handle of silver with engraved designs, the engraved lines inlaid with black composition. The finial and bolster gilded. The handle is engraved on one side with an allegorical scene of Prudence (a scene which depicts Moses and the stone tablets of God's Ten Commandments, and in the foreground a seated man instructs a child with an open Bible; an angel above holds a crown over the man's head; the word 'IEHOVA' ('God') in the sky); below this scene is a squirrel and a naked woman seated, holding apples. On the other side of the handle, the allegorical figure of Beauty (a seated woman combs her hair and looks into a hand-held mirror; three cherubs around her: one holds a crown above her head, another beside her holds a bird, the third supports the mirror); below this scene is a squirrel and a naked woman, seated, who holds a palm leaf.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Steel, silver and gilded silver |
Brief description | Netherlands, silver and gilded silver with a steel blade, the handle dated 1631, the blade marked with cutler's mark 'B' a crown above. |
Physical description | Handle of silver with engraved designs, the engraved lines inlaid with black composition. The finial and bolster gilded. The handle is engraved on one side with an allegorical scene of Prudence (a scene which depicts Moses and the stone tablets of God's Ten Commandments, and in the foreground a seated man instructs a child with an open Bible; an angel above holds a crown over the man's head; the word 'IEHOVA' ('God') in the sky); below this scene is a squirrel and a naked woman seated, holding apples. On the other side of the handle, the allegorical figure of Beauty (a seated woman combs her hair and looks into a hand-held mirror; three cherubs around her: one holds a crown above her head, another beside her holds a bird, the third supports the mirror); below this scene is a squirrel and a naked woman, seated, who holds a palm leaf. |
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Marks and inscriptions | Engraved |
Credit line | Salting Bequest |
Production | Decoration after the style of Johann Theodor de Bry |
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Bibliographic reference | Hollstein, F. W. H., Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts c. 1450-1700, vol. IV (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1951). |
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Accession number | M.614-1910 |
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Record created | March 24, 2005 |
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