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Lot 249*

A Large Horn Powder-Flask
19th Century, Probably South American

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Large Horn Powder-Flask
19th Century, Probably South American

Formed from a section of cowhorn and incised over most of its surface with flowering foliage inhabited by male and female figures in contemporary costume including musicians and a priest grasping the Devil by one of his horns and in the process of flaying him, a monkey playing a harp, a goat and a parrot, all between broad borders of interlace and running flowering foliage (nozzle reduced, minor damage), and with pinned wooden base-plug
43 cm.

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