ITALY OR FRANCE SECOND HALF OF THE 16th CENTURYServing knife partly... Lot 26

ITALY OR FRANCE SECOND HALF OF THE 16th CENTURYServing knife partly in gilt bronze, the gilding continuing on the steel blade engraved with scrolls. The handle is successively decorated with a square of dots, acanthus leaves, two riveted mother-of-pearl plates and a Corinthian crown topped by the head of a bird of prey. Copper cutler's mark inlaid in the blade. This mark technique is found on a knife of the same period in the collections of the Victoria Albert Museum. Length : 30 cm - width of the blade : 3,4 cm