˜Property from an Important Private Collection A FINE KNIFE WITH CARVED IVORY HILT, 17TH CENTURY, GERMAN OR DUTCH with 18th century tapering blade double-edged for its upper half, etched with a green man mask on a scrolling stand on one face at the forte, baluster moulded base enclosed by a moulded silver collar (loose) for securing the grip, the latter carved in the round with the temptation of Adam by Eve with the Serpent between, all within the branches of the Tree of Knowledge with modestly positioned garlands of fruit, the inner face with an elaborate scroll, and in fine condition throughout, in its 18th century silver-mounted scabbard 32.7 cm; 12 7/8 in overall Provenance The Grand Duchy of Baden Court Library to 1850 The Grand Duchy of Baden Court Art Gallery to 1879 Residenzschloss, Karlsruhe, integrated into the private Collection of the Grand Duke of Baden Neues Schloss, Baden Baden, from 1919 Sold Sotheby's, Baden-Baden, 5th October 1995, lot 456 Literature Inventarium über die in dem Atelier des Galleriedirectors Frommel befindliche Elfenbein Sammlung, 1854: 121.16 Inventar des Zähringer Museums, Aufgestellt in den Räumen des Kavalierbaues des Grossherzoglichen Schlosses in Baden-Baden, 1919, ff, Inv. Nr. 174