Two Knives
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1640
name: label: After
content: Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 – 1563
label: Print Maker
content: Aegidius Sadeler II, Flemish, 1570 - 1629
label: After
content: Cherubino Alberti, Italian, 1553–1615
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Both knives with heavily ornamented handles. At left, carving knife with hook-tipped blade has handle decorated with figure of bound Marsyas with his hands above his head as bearded man kneels between his legs and grasps his genitals. At right, broad-blade servivng knife with rounded blunt tip; handle displays Apollo's griffin above two bare-breasted female figures with a bearded man (perhaps Olympus) at their feet.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William H. Schab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1944-84-1
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 24.6 x 11.6 cm (9 11/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 29 x 16.6 cm (11 7/16 x 6 9/16 in.)