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Design for a Knife Handle with a Scene from the Book of Tobit

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Design for a Knife Handle with a Scene from the Book of Tobit

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Design for a knife handle with a scenes from the Book of Tobit in an oval at center, showing two kneeling figures before a canopied bed in an interior on a blackwork background with grotesques, including two winged mermaids at bottom. Flanking the central design, biblical texts on blades with alternate finials above. From a series of twelve plates.
Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach)

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1623
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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