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Lot 137

A Continental Horseman's Pot
Mid-17th Century, Probably Flemish

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Continental Horseman's Pot
Mid-17th Century, Probably Flemish

Of blackened steel, with rounded one-piece skull embossed with vertical ribs and flutes radiating downwards from a ring-shaped finial centred on flower-head shaped washer, the front with pointed rivetted peak with turned edge and pierced for an adjustable bar-nasal with finial pierced with a heart and working on a wing-headed screw, neck-guard of four upward-lapping plates each with waved upper edge, the bottom one drawn-out to a blunt point, triangular cheek-pieces each pierced with a star centred on six square-shaped piercings, the main edges turned and with dome-headed brass rivets throughout
28 cm. high

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Provenance
Bonhams Oxford, Antique Arms and Militaria, 13 May 2009, lot 365

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