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Lot 160†
A Rare German Ormulu-Mounted Powder-FlaskCirca 1600, Probably Nuremberg Or Augsburg
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£3,500 - £4,000
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Circa 1600, Probably Nuremberg Or Augsburg
Circa 1600, Probably Nuremberg Or Augsburg
With polished cow horn body of slightly curved flattened triangular form fitted with a cast and chased figure of a musketeer on the front against a ground of incised foliate scrollwork, the sides incised with star-like motifs, all within double line borders, mounts chased with borders of stylised foliage against hatched grounds and comprising basal mount with short nozzle over a bullet magazine with sliding scallop-shaped cap working on an elaborate mount secured by screws, top mount with engraved tapering nozzle and sprung tap, the latter with turned button finial, sliding cut-off cast and chased in the round as a lion, and retaining some original gilding
22 cm.
22 cm.
Footnotes
Cf. a related powder-flask in the Wallace Collection (inv. no. A1262). For other examples see Claude Blair, The James A. De Rothschild Collection At Waddesdon Manor, Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork, 1997, pp. 380-383, cat. nos. 159 and 160, figs. 164-166; and Herbert G. Houze, The Sumptuous Flaske..., 1989, pp. 76-77, no. 23








