Lot Essay
The maker (recorded 1819-1893) held a royal appointment from about 1860, the year in which he moved to Berlin
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BY HEINRICH BARELLA, MAGDEBURG, CIRCA 1850
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A fine 16-bore German d.b. percussion sporting gun
By Heinrich Barella, Magdeburg, circa 1850
With fluted etched twist barrels, scroll engraved patent breeches, long tang engraved and chiselled with scrollwork and a grotesque mask, engraved and chiselled locks signed in gold and each decorated with a scene of the chase in relief, sprung pierced and chiselled nipple-guards, figured walnut half-stock carved in relief with flowers, foliage, a bird and a grotesque mask, the tip of the fore-end in the form of a monster's head with mother-of-pearl eyes, behind the cheek-piece a fox taking a pheasant in a wooded landscape, chequered grip and fore-end, scroll engraved iron butt-plate, scroll trigger-guard chiselled in relief with a dog attacking a vagabond and fitted with pierced ebony tang, iron sling mounts, white-metal ramrod-pipes, and original brass-mounted ramrod with reversable worm
35in. (88.9cm.) barrels
By Heinrich Barella, Magdeburg, circa 1850
With fluted etched twist barrels, scroll engraved patent breeches, long tang engraved and chiselled with scrollwork and a grotesque mask, engraved and chiselled locks signed in gold and each decorated with a scene of the chase in relief, sprung pierced and chiselled nipple-guards, figured walnut half-stock carved in relief with flowers, foliage, a bird and a grotesque mask, the tip of the fore-end in the form of a monster's head with mother-of-pearl eyes, behind the cheek-piece a fox taking a pheasant in a wooded landscape, chequered grip and fore-end, scroll engraved iron butt-plate, scroll trigger-guard chiselled in relief with a dog attacking a vagabond and fitted with pierced ebony tang, iron sling mounts, white-metal ramrod-pipes, and original brass-mounted ramrod with reversable worm
35in. (88.9cm.) barrels