Lot 219
  • 219

A set of eleven French silver knives, Guy-Joseph Zevort, Lille, circa 1730

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • A set of eleven French silver knives, Guy-Joseph Zevort, Lille, circa 1730
  • silver
  • 26 cm long; 10 in.
the handles facetted, with steel blades, together with two of a slightly different model

Exhibited

Les orfèvres de Lille, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, 2007.

Literature

N. Cartier, Les orfèvres de Lille II, Louvain, 2007, n° 233.

Condition

In overall good condition. One with blade to be refixed. Usual minor dents and scratches comensurate with age. Seven with legible maker's mark. Steel blades: 10 stamped with crowned swan and four letters below, 2 with a sort of earing, the last stamped Renaix Chave (f?). Rare set.
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