TWO CHANTILLY PISTOL-SHAPED KNIFE-HANDLES

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TWO CHANTILLY PISTOL-SHAPED KNIFE-HANDLES
CIRCA 1736, THE FERRULES WITH THE DÉCHARGE PROBABLY OF HUBERT LANCRET, PARIS 1732-38, THE BLADES MARKED WITH A BUNCH OF GRAPES AND LANCRE

Painted with a Chinese man in an iron-red jacket and yellow trousers holding a parasol and riding a horse in a landscape with flowering shrubs and his dog; the other with a man in red coat and blue trousers riding an ostrich in a landscape with flowers issuing from rockwork, fitted with contemporary silver ferrules and steel blades--4in. (10cm.) long (2)