Il trinciante

Molinari, Mattio, 1598-1665 · 1636 · In Padova : Per Liuio Pasquati · 23 pictures

Il trinciante is a 1636 Italian manual on carving meat and fruit and setting the table, written by Mattio Molinari and printed in Padua by Liuio Pasquati for household cooks and stewards. The four pictures are small decorative woodcut initials, letters L, I, A and another capital framed in dense scrolling foliage, animal and grotesque forms, offering a designer ready-made letterforms with ornamental borders.

Carving (Meat, etc.) -- Early works to 1800 · Fruit carving -- Early works to 1800 · Table setting and decoration -- Early works to 1800 · Cooking, Italian -- Early works to 1800 · Dinners and dining -- Italy -- Early works to 1800 · Knives -- Italy -- Early works to 1800 · Knives -- Early works to 1800

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