Knife with a Handle Representing a Nun with a Flaming Heart

Knife with a Handle Representing a Nun with a Flaming Heart

BK-NM-2973

De non houdt in haar rechter hand een boek.

number: ‘11’

sculptor: anonymous, Low Countries

c. 1650 - c. 1700

boxwood (knife handle), silver (band), steel (blade)

• length 8.5 cm x width 3 cm x depth 2 cm (knife handle)
• length 23 cm (total)

Public domain

…; from the dealer Van Gelder, The Hague,{About Van Gelder, see C. Stolwijk, _Uit de schilderswereld: Nederlandse kunstschilders in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw_, Leiden 1998, p. 310.} fl. 125, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 19 September 1876; transferred to the museum, 1885

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20035677