two new fruit trencher webpages!

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While I've been slacking off on this project due to work and stuff, there's been two new trencher-related articles put on the web.

1) A printmaker wants to recreate a set of trenchers. Like Ivan Day, she's chosen the Griffith set ( see previous post) to reproduce, even though the originals were not made with prints. A follow-up post: Read more... )

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I tried google, but could not figure it out, so I used tineye. Only found the three images I already knew of. I'm pretty sure it's a detail hacked out a larger painting, which is going to make it the devil to find. None of them cite it as anything better than "16th century painting (Netherlands)". I did find a facebook page for Mergriet van Wijenhorst, so I'm going to try to write her this evening.
I suspect that it might be a Netherlandish painter working in England. Either way, I really need a decent cite for this painting, even thought the trenchers appear to be so thick I'm wondering if they might be enameled plates.