拍品专文
This horn appears to be by the Lake George/Lake Champlain School of engravers, possibly by the same maker of the Seikrig and Page horns, each engraved with the word WAR.
细节
AN ENGRAVED VERSE POWDER HORN
INSCRIBED AND DATED "LEUT. ABEL PRINDEL, NO. 4, JUNE 4, 1757"
Decorated with scrolls, feathers, and geometric patterns and the rhyme: "I powder with my broth ball, a heroe like do Conquer all, Tis best abrod with foreign foes to fight, And not at home to feel their hateful spite, Where all our friends of every sex and age, Will be exposed unto their creuel rage," above the word WAR, and the owner's name, the throat with twin ring and turned spout--13in. long
INSCRIBED AND DATED "LEUT. ABEL PRINDEL, NO. 4, JUNE 4, 1757"
Decorated with scrolls, feathers, and geometric patterns and the rhyme: "I powder with my broth ball, a heroe like do Conquer all, Tis best abrod with foreign foes to fight, And not at home to feel their hateful spite, Where all our friends of every sex and age, Will be exposed unto their creuel rage," above the word WAR, and the owner's name, the throat with twin ring and turned spout--13in. long
出版
Stephen V. Grancsay American Engraved Powder Horns (New York, 1945), p. 65, includes this horn on the check list, no. 691, with William Nowlin of Dearborn, Michigan given as the owner at that date.