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Lot 193

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

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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

Of tapering ovoidal form with integral nozzle formed as a monster-head (worn on one side) with mother-of-pearl and dark wood eyes, one side engraved with rutting stags in a landscape, a serpent in a tree to one side, and inscribed 'Klugheit und Tapfferkeit Ist die Stärcke in den Streit' above, and on the other with a stag and birds in a landscape, a squirrel in a tree to one side, and inscribed 'Des edlen Hirsches größte Frued, Ist mir recht von Egidi Zeit' above, and horn basal plate secured by dark wood pins
28 cm.

Footnotes

The inscriptions are in old German and read in translation: 'The greatest strength when rutting is wisdom and fortitude' and 'The noble stag's greatest pleasure will always be my content'

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