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拍品 1601 - S20 An important private collection of antique cutlery - Donnerstag, 21. März 2024, 10.00 AM
IMPRESSIVE, FIGURAL KNIFE HANDLE FEATURING A YOUNG NOBLEMAN WITH A HUNTING FALCON
Rare and early figurative knife handle depicting falconry (falcon hunting), which probably originated in Central Asia and was also very popular with the nobility in the European cultural area in the Middle Ages and is a symbol of the courtly world. Corresponding motifs can also be found on boxes, furniture and in artistic manuscripts (see Iris Kolly. Kunstvolle Essbestecke - Eine Auswahl aus der Sammlung des Historischen Museum Basel. Basel, 2006. p. 13). Cf. for a similar handle whose iconography takes up that of the nobleman with bird: Metall für den Gaumen, Bestecke aus den Sammlungen des Österreichischen Museums für angewandte Kunst. Riegersburg Castle, 1990, p. 25, fig. 6). There, the object is still attached to the blade. Another fine example can be found in the collection of the Klingenmuseum Solingen (inv. no. 2006.M.028). A stylistically related but somewhat more simple example can be found in the Marquardt collection: see Klaus Marquardt. Europäisches Essbesteck aus acht Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart, 1997. p. 24, fig. 28.
CHF 2 500 / 3 500 | (€ 2 580 / 3 610)
以瑞士法郎銷售 CHF 3 250 (包含買家佣金)
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