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SOUTH GERMAN, PERHAPS MUNICH, MID-16TH CENTURY | FOUR-PIECE SET OF PRESENTATION CUTLERY
Auction Closed
January 30, 06:45 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
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SOUTH GERMAN, PERHAPS MUNICH, MID-16TH CENTURY
FOUR-PIECE SET OF PRESENTATION CUTLERY
two with maker's marks in the form of a running animal
wood-and bone- inlaid steel and bronze, tooled leather
four utensils with original cuir boulli case
length of case 20 ½ in.; 45.1 cm.
Blumka Gallery, New York;
Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Zwanger, New York
It is extremely rare to find a complete set of presentation cutlery - - a presentoire- - accompanied by its original leather case. These implements were used by a master carver at an official court banquet to both cut and present the meat to the prince.
Compare a similar 5-piece presentation set in the Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen, inv. no. 2009.B.022 (Laue, op. cit., p. 33, fig. 20) and an imperial 4-piece set (Laue, op. cit., cat.no. 57, p. 125), both of which are associated with the famous blade maker Melchior Dieffenstetter, who was mentioned as living in Munich from 1497 to 1556 and who worked for the Imperial court in Vienna and the Grand Ducal court in Bavaria.
RELATED LITERATURE
Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Kostbare Bestecke für die Kunstkammern Europas, Munich, 2010