拍品 1745 - S20 An important private collection of antique cutlery - Donnerstag, 21. März 2024, 10.00 AM
FOLDABLE TRAVEL CUTLERY SET WITH KNIFE AND FORK
Saxon, ca. 1700.
Iron handle with horn handle scales, decorated with fine silver piqué and flowers and applied with rosette-shaped handle rivets. Narrow side with engraved leaf decoration. Rounded handle ends with silver mounts, engraved with peacock feathers. Handle collars with figures in relief of a warrior with a sabre. Hinged blade with tip on the cutting edge. Smith's mark. Hinge plates engraved with the Electoral Saxon coat of arms. Folding fork tip with two tines, slightly conical fork neck, the bolster jointed.
L knife 15.6 cm, fork 16 cm.
Fork tip and blade corroded, horn scales with cracks, minor defects to the silver inlays. Applied band on the narrow side of the handle detached. One prong tip with minor break.
Cf. for a very similar fork: Nože, lžíce, vidličky ze sbírek Uměleckoprůmyslového muzea v Praze. Prague, 1981, p. 127, fig. 131. See in particular the scale decoration on the pommel, the warrior on the blade bolster and the Electoral Saxon coat of arms on the hinge plate. The object is in the possession of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (inv. no. 12 582). An almost identical piece of cutlery with the engraved Saxon Electoral coat of arms on the hinged plate sold at Lempertz, 17 November 2023, Lot No. 1174. Another comparative example can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (Inv. No. M.619&A-1910).
Cf. for a very similar fork: Nože, lžíce, vidličky ze sbírek Uměleckoprůmyslového muzea v Praze. Prague, 1981, p. 127, fig. 131. See in particular the scale decoration on the pommel, the warrior on the blade bolster and the Electoral Saxon coat of arms on the hinge plate. The object is in the possession of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (inv. no. 12 582). An almost identical piece of cutlery with the engraved Saxon Electoral coat of arms on the hinged plate sold at Lempertz, 17 November 2023, Lot No. 1174. Another comparative example can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (Inv. No. M.619&A-1910).
CHF 400 / 800 | (€ 410 / 820)
以瑞士法郎銷售 CHF 1 625 (包含買家佣金)
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