細節
A GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW
CIRCA 1700
With slender bow retaining its original cord and bindings, walnut tiller (chipped and with old repairs) sparsely inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques, one decorated with a dog and a squirrel, and another with a monkey and a fox, set trigger, and iron loop and trigger-guard, converted not long after manufacture into a slur-bow with the addition of a wooden cover to the bolt-channel, bearing staghorn sights (butt-plate missing)
25¾in. (65.4cm.)
CIRCA 1700
With slender bow retaining its original cord and bindings, walnut tiller (chipped and with old repairs) sparsely inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques, one decorated with a dog and a squirrel, and another with a monkey and a fox, set trigger, and iron loop and trigger-guard, converted not long after manufacture into a slur-bow with the addition of a wooden cover to the bolt-channel, bearing staghorn sights (butt-plate missing)
25¾in. (65.4cm.)
來源
The Marquess of Bute, Sotheby & Co, 11 July 1970, lot 51