SILVER BINDING -- An 18th-century Danish embossed silver binding, with maker's mark of Ole Flores Wilcken (Copenhagen, ca. 1740). (160 x 117mm). In a modern cloth box. Provenance : Christine Elisabet Sested (binding, dated 1759); Major J.R.Abbey (armorial booklabel on box, collection number 6831). The front cover is embossed with flowers and scrolling foliage against a matt ground enclosing a central raised oval panel finely embossed with the Good Samaritan tending the wounds of the injured traveller. The back cover is embossed with lilies and scolling foliage, the central oval raised panel embossed with the cross and emblems of death and inscribed "Durabis in Perpetuum". The spine is plain but with engraved lettering "Christine=Elisabet=Selsted 1759". It is interesting to note that the flowers and foliage are executed in a semi-naturalistic form and that this Scandinavian work shows no trace of the highly stylised rococo ornament which was so ubiquitous on such bindings in western Europe.
SILVER BINDING -- An 18th-century Danish embossed silver binding, with maker's mark of Ole Flores Wilcken (Copenhagen, ca. 1740). (160 x 117mm). In a modern cloth box. Provenance : Christine Elisabet Sested (binding, dated 1759); Major J.R.Abbey (armorial booklabel on box, collection number 6831). The front cover is embossed with flowers and scrolling foliage against a matt ground enclosing a central raised oval panel finely embossed with the Good Samaritan tending the wounds of the injured traveller. The back cover is embossed with lilies and scolling foliage, the central oval raised panel embossed with the cross and emblems of death and inscribed "Durabis in Perpetuum". The spine is plain but with engraved lettering "Christine=Elisabet=Selsted 1759". It is interesting to note that the flowers and foliage are executed in a semi-naturalistic form and that this Scandinavian work shows no trace of the highly stylised rococo ornament which was so ubiquitous on such bindings in western Europe.
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