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Fork from a set of marriage cutlery
Southern Netherlands
1590
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Length: 18 cm
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession Number2023.338.2
ClassificationsSilver flatware
DescriptionThis very early marriage cutlery set has finely engraved silver handles with grotesques and cartouches containing scenes from the Bible. The names of the couple and 1590, the year they married, are engraved on the sides.
Susanna and the Elders; Eve created from Adam’s rib. Roundels as above.
Susanna and the Elders; Eve created from Adam’s rib. Roundels as above.
ProvenancePrivate collector (d. by 2017), Wassenaar, The Netherlands [see note]; by descent to his family; about 2017, consigned by the family to Vendehuis der Notissaren, The Hague, unsold; about 2017, sold by the family to A. Aardewerk, The Hague; 2023, sold by Aardewerk to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 21, 2023)
NOTE: According to information supplied by the dealer, the cutlery had been in this family for several generations.
NOTE: According to information supplied by the dealer, the cutlery had been in this family for several generations.