拍品專文
The inscription translates as follows: 'He positions his little net near the fence: if he does not catch game, he catches beautiful women'
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IN THE STYLE OF THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY
細節
A .38 GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK CARBINE
In the style of the early 17th Century
With sighted smooth-bore barrel, engraved tang, flat lock engraved with animals in a landscape, and a scene of the Temptation, gilt engraved raised wheel-cover and gilt cock-spring, walnut full stock inlaid with staghorn lines and scrollwork, and with staghorn plaques, the fore-stock with marine monsters, the butt with a scene of the chase on the left side, and a stag and hind on the right side, and, opposite the lock, with an amorous couple in a landscape above the inscription 'Er richt Sein Netzlein nach Dem Zaun: fächt er nit wilt So fächt er Schön Fraun', and elsewhere with figures including a bagpiper and an obscene figure of a jester, the butt with applied spirally fluted staghorn comb, and iron ring for suspension, staghorn butt-plate engraved with a coat-of-arms, indented iron trigger-guard, and horn-tipped ramrod
33¾in.
In the style of the early 17th Century
With sighted smooth-bore barrel, engraved tang, flat lock engraved with animals in a landscape, and a scene of the Temptation, gilt engraved raised wheel-cover and gilt cock-spring, walnut full stock inlaid with staghorn lines and scrollwork, and with staghorn plaques, the fore-stock with marine monsters, the butt with a scene of the chase on the left side, and a stag and hind on the right side, and, opposite the lock, with an amorous couple in a landscape above the inscription 'Er richt Sein Netzlein nach Dem Zaun: fächt er nit wilt So fächt er Schön Fraun', and elsewhere with figures including a bagpiper and an obscene figure of a jester, the butt with applied spirally fluted staghorn comb, and iron ring for suspension, staghorn butt-plate engraved with a coat-of-arms, indented iron trigger-guard, and horn-tipped ramrod
33¾in.
來源
Leopold Blumka
出版
Merrill Lindsay, 'Beauty But No Bang', True Magazine, August 1966, p. 40, plate J
Russell Barnett Aitken, 'The Investment You Can Hang on the Wall', True Magazine, September 1963, p. 61 (illustrated)
Russell Barnett Aitken, 'The Investment You Can Hang on the Wall', True Magazine, September 1963, p. 61 (illustrated)
拍場告示
Please note the stock and its inlays all appear to be early 17th Century