CIRCA 1590

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A CONTINENTAL MUSKETEER'S LARGE TRIANGULAR POWDER-FLASK
Circa 1590
With wooden body retaining much of its original velvet covering (worn, red faded to russet), mounted in gilt-bronze, the back and top cast in low relief, the former decorated with guilloche borders, the latter decorated with monster-head scrollwork and the nozzle fitted with cut-off lever moving on an internal spring, the outer panel decorated with The Judgement of Paris pierced and in high relief, with pierced gilt-bronze belt hook (loose, one screw missing), and four small rings at the sides
10¾in (27.3cm)

Provenance

Ian Roper, Esq., London

Literature

Arms and Armour at the Dorchester, 1983, London exhibition catalogue, p.48

A.V.B Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour Supplement, 1986, p. 260, A 1279

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

An identical flask is in the Wallace Collection, London, (A 1279). Further comparable examples are cited in both the catalogue and supplement. The workmanship is attributable to a number of Continental European countries but is most likely to be German, Italian or Flemish.

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