Lot 173
173
AN EASTERN EUROPEAN POWDER-FLASK with forked body of natural staghorn, the outer side engraved with geometric designs including scrolls and triangles coloured red, green and fawn, nozzle (stopper missing) and pivoted cut-off en suite, and two iron rings for suspension, Carpathian Basin, 18th Century

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AN EASTERN EUROPEAN POWDER-FLASK with forked body of natural staghorn, the outer side engraved with geometric designs including scrolls and triangles coloured red, green and fawn, nozzle (stopper missing) and pivoted cut-off en suite, and two iron rings for suspension, Carpathian Basin, 18th Century
13¼in.

Lot Essay

Many flasks of this type are found in the Hungarian province of Transylvania, now Romania, for example, in the Ethnographical Museum, Chy

See Bela Borsos, Staghorn Powder-Flasks, pp.40-50, pl.4

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