Set of seven pruning tools, 1575–1600, French, Moulins, Steel, partly gilded; mother-of-pearl, Tool (.1470): 3 5/16 × 5/8 × 12 in. (8.4 × 1.6 × 30.5 cm); Knife (.1471): 1 × 6 5/8 × 7 in. (2.5 × 16.8 × 17.8 cm); Knife (.1472): 1 1/4 × 1 × 12 in. (3.2 × 2.5 × 30.5 cm); Saw (.1473): 3 1/8 × 13 3/4 × 1 1/8 in. (7.9 × 34.9 × 2.9 cm), Metalwork-Steel, Decorated with engraved natural motifs, including fruit and fish, precious tools such as these were meant for noble patrons for whom gardening had gradually become a suitable pastime. The set, comprising clippers, a saw, four knives, and a combination hammer-rasp-file-and-auger, would have been used for trimming branches and obtaining bud grafts
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Set, seven pruning tools, 1575–1600, French, Moulins, Steel, partly gilded, mother, pearl, Tool, .1470, 3 5/16, 5/8, 12, 8.4, 1.6, 30.5 cm, Knife, .1471, 1, 6 5/8, 7, 2.5, 16.8, 17.8, .1472, 1 1/4, 3.2, Saw, .1473, 1/8, 13 3/4, 7.9, 34.9, 2.9, Metalwork-Steel, Decorated, engraved natural motifs, fruit, fish, precious, meant, noble patrons, whom gardening, gradually, suitable pastime, set, comprising clippers, saw, four knives, combination hammer-rasp-file, auger, trimming branches, obtaining bud, grafts
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