A GERMAN HORN POWDER-FLASK
A GERMAN HORN POWDER-FLASK

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节
A GERMAN HORN POWDER-FLASK
Early 19th Century
With flattened body and gilt-brass mounts, the front with a pierced panel finely cast and chased in relief with a trophy of arms, the mounts with lines of rose branches and Neo-Classical motifs, the stopper in the form of a bird's head retained by a chain, with two suspension-rings
10in.
出版
Russell Barnett Aitken, 'The Investment You Can Hang on the Wall', True Magazine, September 1963, p. 63 (illustrated)

拍品专文

Cf. an almost identical flask from the collection of the late Alan S. Kelley, Sotheby & Co., New York, 24 May 1993, lot 485, and another in the C.O. von Kienbusch Collection, Philadelphia, inv. no. 735