Knife (Netherlands), ca. 1618

straight sided tapering handle engraved with figures of Ceris, Bacchus, scenes from a tale Knife (a): straight sided tapering handle engraved with figures of Ceris, Bacchus, scenes from a tale, grotesques and masks. Shaped and pierced terminal with gilt baluster finial; pointed steel blade; knife (b): straight sided tapering handle engraved with figures of Perveirs ?, Hermurs ?, scenes from a tale invluding Susannah and the Elders, grotesques and masks. Shaped and pierced terminal with gilt baluster finial; pointed steel blade.

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