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CIRCA 1600
细节
A GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW AND CRANEQUIN
Circa 1600
With robust steel bow struck with a mark, a cross within a circle surmounted by a coronet, held by old cords retaining traces of painted decoration and with an early string, ebonized tiller swelling towards the middle and hollowed out at the cheek-piece (old repair), the top and bottom veneered in white staghorn engraved with sprays of fruit and foliage, strapwork, a squirrel, a grotesque mask, overlapping foliage, and running designs of foliated scrollwork on a hatched ground (some wear and restoration), the sides inlaid with engraved shaped white staghorn panels (some later) between white staghorn lines, horn nut (retaining cords replaced), iron cranequin lugs, iron lever trigger, swivelling safety-catch, and later butt-plate (set trigger and suspension-ring missing), the cranequin with small gear-box, the gear-wheel pierced with circular holes, the clawed ratchet bar with incised decoration and a maker's mark at the front and a belt hook at the rear, the winding arm with turned wooden handle (cord retaining loop missing)
23½in. (59.7cm.) (2)
Circa 1600
With robust steel bow struck with a mark, a cross within a circle surmounted by a coronet, held by old cords retaining traces of painted decoration and with an early string, ebonized tiller swelling towards the middle and hollowed out at the cheek-piece (old repair), the top and bottom veneered in white staghorn engraved with sprays of fruit and foliage, strapwork, a squirrel, a grotesque mask, overlapping foliage, and running designs of foliated scrollwork on a hatched ground (some wear and restoration), the sides inlaid with engraved shaped white staghorn panels (some later) between white staghorn lines, horn nut (retaining cords replaced), iron cranequin lugs, iron lever trigger, swivelling safety-catch, and later butt-plate (set trigger and suspension-ring missing), the cranequin with small gear-box, the gear-wheel pierced with circular holes, the clawed ratchet bar with incised decoration and a maker's mark at the front and a belt hook at the rear, the winding arm with turned wooden handle (cord retaining loop missing)
23½in. (59.7cm.) (2)
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium