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A Continental Cutlery Scabbard16th/17th Century, Probably French
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £125 inc. premium
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A Continental Cutlery Scabbard
16th/17th Century, Probably French
16th/17th Century, Probably French
Of hardened brown leather, tooled along the front with a heron perched on foliage, a foliate panel above enclosing a motif, probably a crest, all against a punched granular ground, the back tooled with foliage, the locket and chape with decorative borders, and the sides with ropework terminating in a human mask
21 cm.
21 cm.
Footnotes
For a very similar example see Jan van Trigt, Cutlery, From Gothic to Art Deco, The J. Hollander Collection, 2003, p. 23, no. 24 (illustrated)








