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拍品 72
A DUTCH PARCEL-GILT FILIGREE MARRIAGE CASKET (KNOTTEKISTJE)
MID 17TH CENTURY
已結束2012年5月17日
成交價
USD 9,375
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Since the early 17th century it became a tradition that a man proposed his beloved to marry him by presenting her with a coin knotted into a costly cloth, called 'knottedoek.' If the girl drew the knot tighter, they considered themselves engaged. Later in the 17th century, the cloth was replaced by a silver casket, called 'knottekist'. Three common types exist: trunk, hexagonal and circular shaped; many of them delicately engraved with symbolic love and marriage scenes.