Lot 64
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A GERMAN HORSE MUZZLE
A GERMAN HORSE MUZZLE

DATED 1565

Price realised GBP 6,900
Estimate
GBP 4,000 – GBP 6,000
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A GERMAN HORSE MUZZLE

DATED 1565

Price realised GBP 6,900
Price realised GBP 6,900
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A GERMAN HORSE MUZZLE
Dated 1565
Of iron, formed of openwork panels fixed to a frame by eyehole-headed rivets, a few carrying rings, the panels pierced and engraved with foliated scrolls, some interlaced, enclosing a heraldic lion on each side panel, and two confronted mermaids and a central owl displayed on the upper transverse panel, at the centre of the front a double-headed eagle and above it a small rectangular panel pierced with the date, the basket at the back of the muzzle formed of three pivoting curved chevron-shaped bars (one replaced) linked by chains and each with filed ornament (minor damage and repairs, surface oxidation throughout)
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Rothschild inv. no. AR2893.
Literature
1905 Theresianumgasse Inventory, p. 133, no. 639.
1934 Theresianumgasse Inventory, p. 98, no. 703.

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