拍品專文
Joseph Sowerby was apprenticed to James Peddell in 1700. He was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1708 and died in 1741.
BY JOSEPH SOWERBY, LONDON, CIRCA 1730
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A 16-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Turn-Off Pistol
By Joseph Sowerby, London, circa 1730
With two-stage cannon barrel engraved with a band of foliage, signed breech engraved with a further band of foliage, engraved tang, engraved action, figured moulded swelling walnut butt (repaired) carved with foliage behind the barrel tang, engraved separate trigger-guard, cast and chased mounts including dragonesque side-plate, vacant escutcheon, and grotesque mask pommel (heavily cleaned throughout), London proof marks
11in. (29.8cm.)
By Joseph Sowerby, London, circa 1730
With two-stage cannon barrel engraved with a band of foliage, signed breech engraved with a further band of foliage, engraved tang, engraved action, figured moulded swelling walnut butt (repaired) carved with foliage behind the barrel tang, engraved separate trigger-guard, cast and chased mounts including dragonesque side-plate, vacant escutcheon, and grotesque mask pommel (heavily cleaned throughout), London proof marks
11in. (29.8cm.)