A GERMAN GILT-BRASS POWDER-FLASK, the front of the body cast and chased after Jost Amman with a landscape inhabited by figures engaged in different forms of the chase, the back engraved with foliage inhabited by birds (circular aperture, probably for a watch, filled by a brass patch), the nozzle and top mount decorated with scrolls and strapwork, and two rings for suspension (tap and bottom mounts missing, worn throughout), perhaps late 16th Century | Christie's

Lot 178

178

A GERMAN GILT-BRASS POWDER-FLASK, the front of the body cast and chased after Jost Amman with a landscape inhabited by figures engaged in different forms of the chase, the back engraved with foliage inhabited by birds (circular aperture, probably for a watch, filled by a brass patch), the nozzle and top mount decorated with scrolls and strapwork, and two rings for suspension (tap and bottom mounts missing, worn throughout), perhaps late 16th Century

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A GERMAN GILT-BRASS POWDER-FLASK, the front of the body cast and chased after Jost Amman with a landscape inhabited by figures engaged in different forms of the chase, the back engraved with foliage inhabited by birds (circular aperture, probably for a watch, filled by a brass patch), the nozzle and top mount decorated with scrolls and strapwork, and two rings for suspension (tap and bottom mounts missing, worn throughout), perhaps late 16th Century
7¼in.

Lot Essay

For a discussion of flasks of this type see Claude Blair, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork, pp.372-5

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