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Lot 163

An Amusing German Horn Powder-Flask
Mid-18th Century

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Amusing German Horn Powder-Flask
Mid-18th Century

The brass-mounted body of curved flattened form engraved on one side with a sportsman in contemporary costume leading his hound towards a stag in a landscape, the inscription 'Denn Stoltzen Hirsch in grünen Wald, Find mir mein Leidhund früh gar Bald.' above, and on the other with the stag leading the hound towards a pair of embracing lovers seated in a landscape, the inscription 'Denn Jäger Bey der Courtesi Such ich mit meinen Leidhund früh.' above, turned nozzle with wooden stopper incorporating a pricker, and two brass rings for suspension
29.5 cm.

Footnotes

The inscriptions read in translation: 'My lymer [tracking hound] finds the proud stag in the greenwood for me quite soon' and 'I seek the courting hunter with my lymer'

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