BY DUMONT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

細節

A Fine And Rare 16-Bore Swiss Flintlock Fowling-Piece
By Dumont, early 18th Century
With tapering sighted barrel with sighting flat interrupted at the breech by scrolling foliage and a lion-mask finely chiselled in relief, finely engraved tang with large applied back-sight, signed rounded lock engraved with foliage on the tail and with moulded border, moulded figured walnut full stock carved in relief with scrollwork and monster-heads (minor bruises), finely chiselled iron mounts decorated in relief with grotesque masks, monster-heads, scrollwork and foliage, including elaborately pierced side-plate and escutcheon, the latter with coronet above, the butt-plate with long shaped tang, four iron ramrod-pipes each of bold baluster form, blued trigger-plate, and original fiddle-pattern wooden ramrod, in very fine condition throughout
46¾in. (118.8cm.) barrel

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

The decoration is based on the Claude Simonin pattern books of 1684/5

The maker appears to be either Bénédict Dumont of Geneva, recorded 1708-10, or David Dumont (dit Villejean) of Moudon (Vaud), recorded there in 1709. No French makers with the name Dumont are recorded in the early 18th century