拍品專文
The names and topography on this horn are not recorded in the literature
DATED 1762
細節
AN UNUSUAL AMERICAN COW-HORN POWDER-FLASK
Dated 1762
The body engraved with a view of Franckfort (sic), the sun, moon and stars, birds, a fort, a river, men-of-war, a settler and his wife, and a townscape over the name 'Abner Dawes', below the nozzle a heart-shaped panel inscribed 'Mtchael (sic) Mezger.1762', some of the engraving picked out in vermilion, the base originally fitted with a wooden plug secured by numerous wooden pins (nozzle reduced)
11in. (28cm.)
Dated 1762
The body engraved with a view of Franckfort (sic), the sun, moon and stars, birds, a fort, a river, men-of-war, a settler and his wife, and a townscape over the name 'Abner Dawes', below the nozzle a heart-shaped panel inscribed 'Mtchael (sic) Mezger.1762', some of the engraving picked out in vermilion, the base originally fitted with a wooden plug secured by numerous wooden pins (nozzle reduced)
11in. (28cm.)