Lot 1624 - S20 An important private collection of antique cutlery - Thursday, 21. March 2024, 10.00 AM
TWO-PIECE CUTLERY SET
Italy, probably Florence, ca. 1500(?). The blade and fork probably French, ca. 1600.
Edged handles with niello decoration, the top and bottom decorated with a stylized trophy and an empty coat of arms cartouche, the narrow sides with a stylized leaf fillet. The gilt bronze handle caps shaped like capitals decorated with flowers in relief. Stepped gilt bronze collar. Iron blade with center tip, the base of the blade bolster carved with acanthus leaf and gilt. The blade engraved with leaf tendrils and gilt. Smith's mark. The fork bolster matches that of the knife, fork tip with two tines.
L knife 21.7 cm, fork 20 cm.
Gilding later and rubbed, blade with traces of corrosion, handles with minor wear to the edges as well as scratched and with slight dents. The handle partially reworked or modified.
Cf. for a similar handle: Arthur Pabst. Die Kunstsammlungen Richard Zschille in Grossenhain. Berlin, 1893. pl. 7, fig. 58. and catalog Museo Nazionale del Bargello, p. 93, nos. 103 and 104. A piece of cutlery of Duke Cosimo I de Medici (1519-1574) with similar form and decoration is known from the former collection of Franz Emmerich Count Lamberg (Auktionskatalog Dorotheum, Besteck-Sammlung Franz Emmerich Graf Lamberg. Vienna, 1912. p. 92, fig. 79/80).
For further details see catalog text for Lot No. 1621.
Gilding later and rubbed, blade with traces of corrosion, handles with minor wear to the edges as well as scratched and with slight dents. The handle partially reworked or modified.Cf. for a similar handle: Arthur Pabst. Die Kunstsammlungen Richard Zschille in Grossenhain. Berlin, 1893. pl. 7, fig. 58. and catalog Museo Nazionale del Bargello, p. 93, nos. 103 and 104. A piece of cutlery of Duke Cosimo I de Medici (1519-1574) with similar form and decoration is known from the former collection of Franz Emmerich Count Lamberg (Auktionskatalog Dorotheum, Besteck-Sammlung Franz Emmerich Graf Lamberg. Vienna, 1912. p. 92, fig. 79/80).For further details see catalog text for Lot No. 1621.
CHF 4 000 / 7 000 | (€ 4 120 / 7 220)
Sold for CHF 4 375 (including buyer’s premium)
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