Lot 35
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A FINE GERMAN D.B. FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE in the Parisian manner, with sighted barrels retaining their original blued and gilt decoration at the muzzles, silver fore-sight and breeches, and over the whole length of the rib, gold vent and gilt tang, signed rounded locks with rollers (left cock cracked), figured birchwood half-stock inlaid with gold lines punched with beadwork, and swags, bows and urns in engraved silver, full silver mounts cast and chased in relief with rococo scrolls, flowers, foliage, and trophies of the chase, large engraved gold escutcheon within a silver wreath and with silver crossed arrows above, cheek-piece, silver ramrod-pipes, and whalebone ramrod, by Pierre Greverath à Dyck, circa 1820

Details
A FINE GERMAN D.B. FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE in the Parisian manner, with sighted barrels retaining their original blued and gilt decoration at the muzzles, silver fore-sight and breeches, and over the whole length of the rib, gold vent and gilt tang, signed rounded locks with rollers (left cock cracked), figured birchwood half-stock inlaid with gold lines punched with beadwork, and swags, bows and urns in engraved silver, full silver mounts cast and chased in relief with rococo scrolls, flowers, foliage, and trophies of the chase, large engraved gold escutcheon within a silver wreath and with silver crossed arrows above, cheek-piece, silver ramrod-pipes, and whalebone ramrod, by Pierre Greverath à Dyck, circa 1820
34¾in. barrels [E.417, S.31]
Literature
A. Hoff,'Die Waffensammlung in Schloß Dyck', p.134

Lot Essay

The arms on the escutcheon are those of Salm-Dyck, for Prince Josef (1773-1861)

The Parisian influence is explained by Prince Josef's close ties with France. He had been married to a French wife since 1803, and had been a Prince of the French Empire from 1804. Between 1800 and 1820 he spent each winter in Paris. However it is unusual for a German Princely family to have retained their own court gunmaker at so late a date, rather than ordering first-rate guns from Paris

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