Design for a Knife Handle with the Marriage at Cana

Johann Theodor de Bry Netherlandish

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Design for a knife handle with the Marriage at Cana in a rectangle at center showing Jesus turning water into wine, on a blackwork background with grotesques. Above, a design for a finial with a mermaid and merman above a putto head. Flanking the central design, two blades engraved with Biblical texts below alternate finial designs. From a series of twelve plates.

Design for a Knife Handle with the Marriage at Cana, Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach), Engraving and blackwork

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