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Engraved knife handle design showing Adam and Eve beside a tree, with putti and ornamental figures below.

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Design for a Knife Handle with the Temptation of Adam and Eve, Johann Theodor de Bry (1580-1600), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via artnap.com

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This print shows an elongated ornamental design for a knife handle, with the Temptation of Adam and Eve depicted in an arched niche beneath a Latin inscription reading Peccatum and the Genesis reference. Below, putti flank an oval medallion and a standing female figure is framed in an oval, with a grotesque figure at the base.

Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art