Design for Knife Handles, from Mansches de Coutiaus

Johann Theodor de Bry Netherlandish

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Two knife handle designs, with a standing female figure with a shield contained in an oval on the design at left. At right, a winged putti head under a canopy above a candelabrum with a basket of fruit at bottom. Both designs on a blackwork background.

Design for Knife Handles, from Mansches de Coutiaus, Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach), Engraving and blackwork

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