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Lot 253

A German Or Austria Silver-Mounted Powder-Flask
18th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A German Or Austria Silver-Mounted Powder-Flask
18th Century

With lightly coloured horn body of curved flattened form, one side carved in relief with a Ducal coat-of-arms, and with an elaborate trophy of arms on the other, all within borders of acanthus, and highlighted with lines of small dots, tapering nozzle emerging from the mouth of a stylised monster-head with amber eyes and carved mane of acanthus, reeded basal mount with arcaded upper border, carved amber base-mount (some damage) with ovoidal piercing set with a bone or white horn stag pursued by two hounds in a landscape against a black fabric ground, and two silver rings carrying a silver chain for suspension
18 cm.

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The arms appear to be those of Lucan or Vay

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