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[SILVER BINDING]. A pair of embossed silver book covers. [Netherlands, first quarter of the eighteenth century]. Folio, 343 x 250mm. (13 1/2 x 9 3/4in.) each, the lower cover with a pair of silver clasps, 25 x 35mm. (1 x 1 3/8in.), slight wear and a few tiny holes.
The front cover with a large central representation of the Crucifixion with Mary and St. John, in a baroque cartouche frame, supported by four cornerpiece portrait roundels of the four Old Testament Patriarchs; the back cover with a large central representation of the Resurrection of Christ with the angel and two astonished guards, supported by four cornerpiece portrait roundels of the Evangelists; each cover design within a fine scroll border and with a similar background of baroque acanthus.
Cf. J.W. Frederiks Dutch Silver: Embossed Ecclesiastical and Secular Plate from the Renaissance until the end of the eighteenth century (The Hague: M. Nijhoff 1961) vol. IV, no. 238, plates 236 and 237 for the front cover; no. 239, plate 235 for the back cover; no. 292, plate 286 for the clasps.
Dr. J.R. de Lorm, Curator of Silver and Gold at the Rijksmuseum, has kindly supplied the localisation and dating of these covers. (2)
The front cover with a large central representation of the Crucifixion with Mary and St. John, in a baroque cartouche frame, supported by four cornerpiece portrait roundels of the four Old Testament Patriarchs; the back cover with a large central representation of the Resurrection of Christ with the angel and two astonished guards, supported by four cornerpiece portrait roundels of the Evangelists; each cover design within a fine scroll border and with a similar background of baroque acanthus.
Cf. J.W. Frederiks Dutch Silver: Embossed Ecclesiastical and Secular Plate from the Renaissance until the end of the eighteenth century (The Hague: M. Nijhoff 1961) vol. IV, no. 238, plates 236 and 237 for the front cover; no. 239, plate 235 for the back cover; no. 292, plate 286 for the clasps.
Dr. J.R. de Lorm, Curator of Silver and Gold at the Rijksmuseum, has kindly supplied the localisation and dating of these covers. (2)