Two late 17th / early 18th century Northern European polychrome enamelled plaquesProbably Dutch or German, the plaques probably originally decorative mounts, perhaps from a silver box
Each of shaped and slightly curved form decorated to the outer side with an elaborately draped green twin handled pedestal urn containing a formalised arrangement of yellow flowers including tulips, the rear of each plaque enamelled in pale blue, later mounted within a fitted presentation box, the plaques: 7cm wide, 6.5cm high (2 3/2in wide, 2 1/2in high) (2)FootnotesFor a comparable knife handle inset with a similarly decorated plaque, see Jan van Trigt, Cutlery from gothic to art deco, the J. Hollander collection, Gent 2004, p. 161, cat. no. 275.
Two late 17th / early 18th century Northern European polychrome enamelled plaquesProbably Dutch or German, the plaques probably originally decorative mounts, perhaps from a silver box
Each of shaped and slightly curved form decorated to the outer side with an elaborately draped green twin handled pedestal urn containing a formalised arrangement of yellow flowers including tulips, the rear of each plaque enamelled in pale blue, later mounted within a fitted presentation box, the plaques: 7cm wide, 6.5cm high (2 3/2in wide, 2 1/2in high) (2)FootnotesFor a comparable knife handle inset with a similarly decorated plaque, see Jan van Trigt, Cutlery from gothic to art deco, the J. Hollander collection, Gent 2004, p. 161, cat. no. 275.
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