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CIRCA 1590
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A RARE GERMAN CARTRIDGE-BOX (PATRON)
circa 1590
With wooden body of strongly arched plano-convex section drilled for five cartridges, the outer face veneered with vertical strips of staghorn engraved with acanthus leaves and fruit, the contrasting ebony strips heightened with horn lines and inset with horn rosettes, riveted iron mounts previously blued and now slightly oxidised, including spring-activated hinged lid secured by a button catch, the base formed with a pronounced outward flange, and fitted with three loops for suspension: containing four reproduction cartridges.
4¾in (12.1cm)
circa 1590
With wooden body of strongly arched plano-convex section drilled for five cartridges, the outer face veneered with vertical strips of staghorn engraved with acanthus leaves and fruit, the contrasting ebony strips heightened with horn lines and inset with horn rosettes, riveted iron mounts previously blued and now slightly oxidised, including spring-activated hinged lid secured by a button catch, the base formed with a pronounced outward flange, and fitted with three loops for suspension: containing four reproduction cartridges.
4¾
Provenance
The Visser Collection, part 1, Sotheby's, 3rd July 1990, lot 153. £3,300 A similar example is in the von Kienbusch Collection, cat. no. 739.
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