A FINE AND RARE DUTCH PEARWOOD KNIFE AND FORK SHEATH, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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A FINE AND RARE DUTCH PEARWOOD KNIFE AND FORK SHEATH, LATE 16TH CENTURY
CARVED OVERALL WITH SCENES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT AND AN ARMORIAL, INSCRIPTION PANELS TO THE SIDES AND CARTOUCHES, DATED THREE TIMES 1585 -- 9¼IN. (23.5CM) LONG

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. All lots sold not cleared by 1.00p.m. on the Thursday following the sale will be removed to the warehouse of: Cadogan Tate Ltd., Fine Art Services Cadogan House, 2 Relay Road London W12 7JS Telephone: 44 (0)20 8753 3700 Facsimile: 44 (0)20 8753 3701 Lots will be available for collection following transfer to Cadogan Tate on the Friday following the sale and every weekday from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO CHARGE TO PURCHASERS WHO COLLECT THEIR LOTS WITHIN ONE WEEK OF THE SALE. On the Thursday one week after the sale, a transfer and administration charge of £18.50 per lot will be payable and a storage charge of £3.20 per lot per day will then come into effect. These charges are payable to Cadogan Tate and are subject to VAT and an insurance surcharge.

Lot Essay

THE PRESENT SHEATH PRE-DATES THREE LATER EXAMPLES - AN EXAMPLE WITH KNIFE, DATED 1610, PROVENANCE R.N. PAGE, SOLD IN CHRISTIE'S GREAT ROOMS, NOVEMBER 2, 1983, LOT 22, AND AGAIN THE PROPERTY OF A
GENTLEMAN, CHRISTIE'S GREAT ROOMS, 27 OCTOBER, 1993, LOT 121; OWEN EVAN-THOMAS, DOMESTIC UTENSILS OF WOOD, STOBART DAVIES, HERTFORD, ENGLAND 1973. AN EXAMPLE ILLUSTRATED PL.60, DATED 1626; EDWARD H. PINTO,TREEN AND OTHER WOODEN BYGONES, BELL AND HYMAN, LONDON 1968. ANOTHER EXAMPLE ILLUSTRATED PL.64, DATED 1611.

THE FIRST OF THESE COMPARATIVE EXAMPLES, PREVIOUSLY SOLD TWICE AT CHRISTIE'S WAS CATALOGUED AS HAVING THE UNIDENTIFIED SIGNIATURE WGW OF A MASTER OR WORKSHOP, WHOSE DATED OEUVRE COVERS THE PERIOD 1566-1626. THIS SIGNIATURE NORMALLY APPEARS ON ONE SIDE NEAR THE POINT, BUT THE PRESENT EXAMPLE BEARS NO SUCH TRACE.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
FOR THE WORK OF 'WGW' SEE C. BLAIR, THE JAMES A. DE ROTHSCHILD COLLECTION AT WADDESDON MANOR. ARMS, ARMOUR AND BASE-METALWORK, LONDON, 1974, PP. 455-6, AND C.L. KUHN, GERMAN AND NETHERLANDISH SCULPTURE. THE HARVARD COLLECTIONS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., 1965, PP. 103-4; AND FOR THE MOUNTS, J. FREDERIKS, DUTCH SILVER, I-III, THE HAGUE, 1952-60, AND A. PABST, DIE KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN DES HERRN RICHARD ZSCHILLE, II, BERLIN, 1887

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