Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Silver mark: 'Stern'.

Provenance
Colelction of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by 1891. his sale: Paris, 1893, lot 2315. Landau-Lemercier collection, Paris. Acquired by Museum in 1958.

Bibliography
C. R. Beard, 'Gravoirs and Knife-Hafts; a 19th-Century Fake Exposed', in Connoisseur 101 (1938), pp. 171-175, no. IV.
H. R. Uhlemann, 'Das Messer mit dem Löwengriff', in Anker und Schwert, I (1959).
H. R. Uhlemann, 'Über einige Vorschneide- und Kredenzbestecke des Deutschen Klingenmuseums Solingen', in Armi Antiche, Bolletino dell'Academia di S. Marciano (Turin, 1967), pp. 3-13.
G. Bencker, Alte Bestecke (Munich, 1978), figs. 20 and 22.
H.-U. Haedeke, Bestecke. Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen (Cologne, 1981), p. 23, ill. on the cover.
Eines Fürsten Traum, Meinhard II - Das Werden Tirols, exhibition catalogue, Dorf Tirol, Südtiroler Landesmuseum Schloss Tirol and Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, 1995, no. 6.8, p. 191 (B. Grotkamp-Schephers).