Lot Essay
For a brush with similar decoration, dated 1665 by the unknown small worker referred to as the 'monogrammist M' see J. W. Fredericks Dutch Silver, The Hague, 1952, pl. 126.
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APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1660, POSSIBLY DUTCH
Details
A CONTINENTAL SILVER TOBACCO RASP
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1660, POSSIBLY DUTCH
Cartouche shaped, the hinged cover decorated with a grotesque mask being attacked by an eagle with out-stretched wings within an auricular border, the back cast and chased with a snake enclosing a hand and with foliage and scalework, prick engraved 'COGNOISANTIA', the interior with two covers, one applied with scrolls, the screw on stopper modelled as a tassel, later engraved inside with a scratchweight '4=5'
3½ in. (9 cm.) long
gross weight 4 oz. (128 gr.)
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1660, POSSIBLY DUTCH
Cartouche shaped, the hinged cover decorated with a grotesque mask being attacked by an eagle with out-stretched wings within an auricular border, the back cast and chased with a snake enclosing a hand and with foliage and scalework, prick engraved 'COGNOISANTIA', the interior with two covers, one applied with scrolls, the screw on stopper modelled as a tassel, later engraved inside with a scratchweight '4=5'
3½ in. (9 cm.) long
gross weight 4 oz. (128 gr.)
Provenance
A Gentleman; Sotheby's London, 25 October 1973, lot 450 to Premsela and Hamburger
Literature
V. Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver, London, 1986, p. 111, pl. 328.
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