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12 knife-rests La Fontaine's Fables after Benjamin Rabier
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Silver-plated knife-rests La Fontaine's Fables signed Benjamin Rabier.
Product Details
- Height
- 3,5 cm
- Depth
- 2,5 cm
- Silversmith
- Paul Delhalle
- Period
- early 20th century
- Materials
- silver plated
- Collection
- Benjamin Rabier
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12 silver-plated knife-rests representing La Fontaine's Fables after Benjamin Rabier's drawings, among them: the Ant and the Grasshopper, the Wolf and the Crane, the Tortoise and the Hare etc.
Sold in their box.
Each knife-rests are signed "Benjamin Rabier" on the base and stamped "P D" for Paul Delhalle (the silversmith).
Size of the knife-rests : 9 cm W x 2,5 cm D x 3,5 cm H
Size of the box : 30 cm W x 21 cm D x 5 cm H.
Benjamin Rabier (1864 - 1939) was a French talented author and illustrator, also a comic-book author. Considerate as one of the most gifted European animal comics designers, he was famous for his character Gédéon the Duck and his illustrations of La Fontaine's Fables.
Silver-plated knife-rests La Fontaine's Fables signed Benjamin Rabier.