Design for Knife Handles with 'Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus' and a Couple Shaking Hands, Johann Theodor de Bry, 1580–1600

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Design for Knife Handles with 'Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus' and a Couple Shaking Hands, 1580–1600, Engraving and blackwork, Sheet: 5 1/4 × 4 in. ( × cm), Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach), Panel with two knife handle designs, both with scenes with two figures under arches at top. The design at left bears the inscription SINE CERERE ET BACCHO FRIGET VENVS, (Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Would Freeze) around a scene depicting a female and male figure walking left

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