Treasures of the Renaissance from the Antony Embden Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 344. A fork and knife with silver-gilt handles, unmarked, probably South Germany or North Italy circa 1680 | Fourchette et couteau, les manches en vermeil, non poinçonnés, prob. Allemagne du Sud ou Italie du Nord vers 1680.

A fork and knife with silver-gilt handles, unmarked, probably South Germany or North Italy circa 1680 | Fourchette et couteau, les manches en vermeil, non poinçonnés, prob. Allemagne du Sud ou Italie du Nord vers 1680

Lot Closed

June 15, 11:45 AM GMT

Estimate

700 - 1,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A fork and knife with silver-gilt handles, unmarked, probably South Germany or North Italy circa 1680

the handles decorated with a lion head surrounded with stylized shell, engraved with dotted initials DPS.R.GDPD, four-prong fork, steel knife blade stamped 30 with stylized coronet

8 1/2in and 7.2in long

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Fourchette et couteau, les manches en vermeil, non poinçonnés, prob. Allemagne du Sud ou Italie du Nord vers 1680

les manches, l'extrémité ornée d'une tête de lion dans un entourage de coquilles stylisées, gravé des initiales DPS.R.GDPD en pointillé, le fourchon à quatre dents et la lame du couteau en acier, la lame estampée du chiffre 30 timbré d'une couronne stylisée

Long. 22 et 18,3 cm

A two-prong forks with similar handle is illustrated in Klaus Marquardt, Eight Centuries of European Knives, Forks and Spoons, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 1997, p. 72