拍品专文
Cut-card ornament finds its origins in 17th Century France. It was introduced to nearby countries by the Huguenots who fled France to escape religious prosecution. Starting with very simple designs in the early 1660's, this form of decoration developed by the end of the century into a highly sophisticated technique.
Cut-card work consists of very thin pieces of silver usually cut into leaf shapes in silhouette and then soldered flat into the silver body. Originally the cards were pierced by using a hammer and chisel. Later they were cut with a piercing saw. By the end of the 17th Century cut-card decoration was often further enriched with other applied ornaments to suggest stems and vines of leaf motifs.
cf. J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, part III, The Hague 1959, no. 90, illustration p. 69, for a caster with cut-card, 's-Hertogenbosch,
1717
see also, part III, no. 127, illustrated p. 101, for a candlestick with cut-card, with maker's mark of Peter Engelen, Arnhem, 1707
Cut-card work consists of very thin pieces of silver usually cut into leaf shapes in silhouette and then soldered flat into the silver body. Originally the cards were pierced by using a hammer and chisel. Later they were cut with a piercing saw. By the end of the 17th Century cut-card decoration was often further enriched with other applied ornaments to suggest stems and vines of leaf motifs.
cf. J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, part III, The Hague 1959, no. 90, illustration p. 69, for a caster with cut-card, 's-Hertogenbosch,
1717
see also, part III, no. 127, illustrated p. 101, for a candlestick with cut-card, with maker's mark of Peter Engelen, Arnhem, 1707