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Richly decorated early 18th-century Dutch silver binding


SILVER BINDING.- Pair of embossed silver book covers, with two silver clasps.

Frontcover with Crucifixion with Mary and St. John, surrounded by four cornerpiece portraits of the four Old Testament Patriarchs, within a baroque cartouche frame , backcover with the Resurrection of Christ with the angel  and two astonished guards, surrounded by four cornerpiece portraits  of the Evangelists, both covers within a fine scroll  border and with a similar background of baroque acanthus.



(The Netherlands, first quarter of the 18th cent.) Both covers measuring 342 x 250 mm. Frontcover with Crucifixion with Mary and St. John, surrounded by four cornerpiece portraits of the four Old Testament Patriarchs, within a baroque cartouche frame , backcover with the Resurrection of Christ with the angel  and two astonished guards, surrounded by four cornerpiece portraits  of the Evangelists, both covers within a fine scroll  border and with a similar background of baroque acanthus.

Beautiful, richly decorated early 18th-century Dutch silver binding. The heavy silver covers, together weighing approximately 1 kliogram, are both apparently unmarked and are probably intended to enrich a missal or bible.
In good condition.- (Sl. wear and a few tiny holes.)
J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver: Embossed Ecclesiastical and Secular Plate from the Renaissance until the end of the Eighteenth century. The Hague, 1961, vol. IV, nrs. 238-239, plates 235-37, and nr. 292, plate 286.

Related Subjects: Bindings  Religion  Silver 

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