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CIRCA 1775, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
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A KELSTERBACH GILT-METAL MOUNTED WHISTLE-ETUI
CIRCA 1775, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Modelled as a man's leg, wearing a green-heeled and edged white shoe with a pierced sole and heel and a white stocking, the upper-part with striped green and yellow breeches with brown foliage and puce scroll cartouches, the hinged glass cover with an indistinct portrait miniature and a woman kneeling before a flaming heart on an altar (small chip to edge of heel, minute glaze blemish to back of calf, damages to gilt-metal cover and portrait miniature)
3 3/8 in. (8.7 cm.) long overall
CIRCA 1775, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY CONTEMPORARY
Modelled as a man's leg, wearing a green-heeled and edged white shoe with a pierced sole and heel and a white stocking, the upper-part with striped green and yellow breeches with brown foliage and puce scroll cartouches, the hinged glass cover with an indistinct portrait miniature and a woman kneeling before a flaming heart on an altar (small chip to edge of heel, minute glaze blemish to back of calf, damages to gilt-metal cover and portrait miniature)
3 3/8 in. (8.7 cm.) long overall
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