If yes, can you see if you can find the trencher mentioned in Caton’s "Fables and fruit-trenchers teach as much”? They are rectangular trenchers decorated with knot work and floral motifs. Each has nested rectangular patterns, similar to the concentric circles of the round trenchers. The innermost rectangle has densely packed text. “Set of eight banqueting trenchers and their case, English, seventeenth century. Sycamore with painted and gilded decoration, each 4 9/16 by 5 11/16 inches.
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Are you going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Date: 2010-03-01 11:23 pm (UTC)“Set of eight banqueting trenchers and their case, English, seventeenth century. Sycamore with painted and gilded decoration, each 4 9/16 by 5 11/16 inches.