拍品 386
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A RARE FLEMISH FOUR-SHOT FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with two-stage swamped sighted barrel, octagonal revolving chambers each with its own pan and steel with chiselled steel-spring, flat bevelled back-action lock finely engraved with foliage, a monster-head, a bearded profile head and a coat-of-arms, moulded figured butt and fore-stock, the former carved with scrolls in relief at the barrel tang, iron mounts including pierced and engraved side-plate, the front of the trigger-guard forming the release for the chambers, single turned iron ramrod-pipe, and plain wooden ramrod, circa 1720

細節
A RARE FLEMISH FOUR-SHOT FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE with two-stage swamped sighted barrel, octagonal revolving chambers each with its own pan and steel with chiselled steel-spring, flat bevelled back-action lock finely engraved with foliage, a monster-head, a bearded profile head and a coat-of-arms, moulded figured butt and fore-stock, the former carved with scrolls in relief at the barrel tang, iron mounts including pierced and engraved side-plate, the front of the trigger-guard forming the release for the chambers, single turned iron ramrod-pipe, and plain wooden ramrod, circa 1720
46¼in. barrel [E.421, S.26]
出版
Hoff, 'Die Waffensamlung in Schloß Dyck', p. 134

拍品專文

The arms are those of Graf Johann Anton von Sporck (1662-1738), imperial Statthalter in Bohemia. A similar gun with the same arms is preserved in the Saxon Royal Armoury, Dresden, and another in the H.L. Visser collection, Wassemaar. See Ehrenthal, Führer durch die Königliche Gewehr-Galerie zu Dresden, No.58, p.11, and van der Sloot, No.54