SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GERMAN
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A Lobster-Tailed Pot
Second quarter of the 17th Century, probably German
With one-piece hemispherical ribbed skull with ring-shaped finial, pointed fixed fall with turned border, pierced for a moveable bar nasal held by a staple and wing-screw and stamped with an 'M' on the finial, bluntly-pointed neck-guard of four upward-lapping lames, and pierced ear-pieces
10½in. (26.7cm.) high
Second quarter of the 17th Century, probably German
With one-piece hemispherical ribbed skull with ring-shaped finial, pointed fixed fall with turned border, pierced for a moveable bar nasal held by a staple and wing-screw and stamped with an 'M' on the finial, bluntly-pointed neck-guard of four upward-lapping lames, and pierced ear-pieces
10½in. (26.7cm.) high