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A Very Fine And Rare Miniature Italian Silver-Mounted StonebowLate 16th Century
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,640 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Very Fine And Rare Miniature Italian Silver-Mounted Stonebow
Late 16th Century
Late 16th Century
With slender steel bow (strings missing) retained by finely engraved silver loops also forming the fore-sight pillars, slender fruitwood-veneered tiller of rectangular section (pommel missing) with curved neck and engraved silver quartrefoil-shaped mount at the front (spike missing), finely engraved silver mounts comprising arched back-sight, gaffle held by two circular side-plates each engraved with a flowerhead, shaped trigger-plate and tapering curved trigger-lever both engraved with foliage, and top mount cast and chased as a foliate scroll
30.7 cm.
30.7 cm.








