拍品专文
Johann Jacob Kuchenreuter (recorded 1709-1783) was court gunmaker to the Princes of Thurn and Taxis
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BY JOHANN JACOB KUCHENREUTER, STEINWEG BEI REGENSBURG, CIRCA 1780
细节
A FINE PAIR OF BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS
By Johann Jacob Kuchenreuter, Steinweg bei Regensburg, circa 1780
With swamped tapering barrels each signed in silver letters on the sighting flat and chiselled in relief with a stag in a wooded landscape framed by rococo motifs, all on a punched ground, each breech with three gilt maker's stamps (Neue Støckel 654, and 7719 twice), silver fore-sights, chiselled tangs each incorporating the back-sight with two extra leaves, one of the leaves numbered respectively '1' and '2', flat bevelled locks each chiselled in relief with a stag and a hind in a wooded landscape on a punched ground, walnut full stocks inlaid with scrollwork in silver wire and carved in relief with scrolls and flowers at the barrel tang, chequered butts (repaired), gilt-bronze mounts cast and chased with rococo ornament in relief on a punched ground, silver escutcheons, set triggers, horn fore-end caps, and original horn-tipped ramrods
17¼in. (43.8cm.) (2)
By Johann Jacob Kuchenreuter, Steinweg bei Regensburg, circa 1780
With swamped tapering barrels each signed in silver letters on the sighting flat and chiselled in relief with a stag in a wooded landscape framed by rococo motifs, all on a punched ground, each breech with three gilt maker's stamps (Neue Støckel 654, and 7719 twice), silver fore-sights, chiselled tangs each incorporating the back-sight with two extra leaves, one of the leaves numbered respectively '1' and '2', flat bevelled locks each chiselled in relief with a stag and a hind in a wooded landscape on a punched ground, walnut full stocks inlaid with scrollwork in silver wire and carved in relief with scrolls and flowers at the barrel tang, chequered butts (repaired), gilt-bronze mounts cast and chased with rococo ornament in relief on a punched ground, silver escutcheons, set triggers, horn fore-end caps, and original horn-tipped ramrods
17¼in. (43.8cm.) (2)