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Design for a Knife Handle with the Sermon on the Mount. Artist: Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561-1623 Bad Schwalbach). Dimensions: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 2 13/16 in. (10.6 × 7.1 cm). Date: 1580-1600.Design for a knife handle with the Sermont on the Mount in a rectangle at center, on a blackwork background with grotesques. Above, a design for a finial with a two horses with fish tails above a putto mask. Flanking the central design, two blades engraved with Biblical texts below alternate finial designs. From a series of twelve plates. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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