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Lot 217

A Large German Powder-Flask
Second Half Of The 16th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,375 inc. premium

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A Large German Powder-Flask
Second Half Of The 16th Century

With cowhorn body of curved flattened triangular form, the front engraved and blackened with a staghunting scene in a landscape, the sides with stylised ropework, and the back with concentric circles centred on a flower-head and with a helmeted male profile bust at the top, iron basal mount and top, the latter with tapering nozzle with sprung tap and scrolled cut-off lever, and two rings for suspension (minor old damage)
42 cm.

Footnotes

For a related example formerly in the Dr. Ernst-Joachim Rogahn Collection and sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms & Armour ..., 24 April 2013, lot 271

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