PROBABLY EPIRUS, OTTOMAN GREECE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SILVER GILT FLINTLOCK PISTOL
PROBABLY EPIRUS, OTTOMAN GREECE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The surface profousely chased and gilt with dense floral sprays and leaves, with narrow tapering grip with bulbous finial, the trigger in the form of a man, minor loss to gilding, otherwise good condition
22 ¼in. (56.3cm.)

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Lot Essay

A flintlock pistol with closely comparable decoration to the present lot was sold in these Rooms, 26 April 2018, lot 189. For further comparable pistols also attributed to Epirus, see Elgood, 2009, p. 231, nos. 291 and 292.

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