Traveling set with glass beaker in case 1777–79 Samuel Bardet German Some members of Central and Southeastern European sovereign dynasties never traveled without their cutlery set. This seemed a strange habit to French courtiers, who, during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shared their knives at table. However, in a time when a little deadly arsenic would go a long way if mixed with one’s salt or spices, the Hungarian aristocracy had reason for their precaution; poisonings, especially by arsenic mixed with salt or spices, were not silversmiths were well-known f

Traveling set with glass beaker in case 1777–79 Samuel Bardet German Some members of Central and Southeastern European sovereign dynasties never traveled without their cutlery set. This seemed a strange habit to French courtiers, who, during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shared their knives at table. However, in a time when a little deadly arsenic would go a long way if mixed with one’s salt or spices, the Hungarian aristocracy had reason for their precaution; poisonings, especially by arsenic mixed with salt or spices, were not silversmiths were well-known for such cutlery sets. The beaker included here is engraved with a hunter and a huntress, suggesting that this traveling set was used during the hunting Silver, Miniatures and Objects of Vertu. Sale cat., Christie’s, Geneva, May 10, 1988, p. 35, no. Seling. Die Augsburger Gold- und Silberschmiede, 1529–1868: Meister, Marken, Werke. New ed. Munich, 2007, p. 52, no. 2490 [town mark], and pp. 631–632, no. 2453 [master mark].[Wolfram Koeppe 2015]. Traveling set with glass beaker in case. German, Augsburg. 1777–79. Gilded silver, steel, glass, dyed and gold-tooled leather, velvet. Metalwork-Silver

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