BY PHILIPPE SELIER (OR DESELLIER), EARLY 18TH CENTURY
細節
A Fine Pair Of 16-Bore Liège Flintlock Fowling-Pieces
By Philippe Selier (or Desellier), early 18th Century
Each with two-stage barrel retaining nearly all its original blued finish, silver spider fore-sight and silver ring back-sight, octagonal breech struck three times with the brass-lined maker's mark (Neue Støckel 4373), brass-lined touch-hole, tang overlaid with brass finely engraved with acanthus foliage, finely engraved faceted brass lock signed on the top edge forward of the faceted pan, engraved cock retained from the inside by a bolt with chiselled grotesque mask head and retaining the original blued finish on the top jaw and screw, the front of the steel chiselled with a grotesque mask in relief, blued steel-spring, moulded figured walnut half-stock carved with foliage in relief, finely engraved cast and chiselled brass mounts (with minor differences in engraving) including pierced foliate side-plate involving a grotesque mask and two monster-heads, vacant escutcheon with coronet above and grotesque mask beneath, brass fore-end cap, faceted brass ramrod-pipes, and original brass-capped woooden ramrod
43¾in. (111.1cm.) barrels
Cf. the garniture of three-shot pistols and gun by the same maker in the Armoury of their Serene Highnesses the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, sold in Christie's, 15 April 1992, lot 255 (2)
By Philippe Selier (or Desellier), early 18th Century
Each with two-stage barrel retaining nearly all its original blued finish, silver spider fore-sight and silver ring back-sight, octagonal breech struck three times with the brass-lined maker's mark (Neue Støckel 4373), brass-lined touch-hole, tang overlaid with brass finely engraved with acanthus foliage, finely engraved faceted brass lock signed on the top edge forward of the faceted pan, engraved cock retained from the inside by a bolt with chiselled grotesque mask head and retaining the original blued finish on the top jaw and screw, the front of the steel chiselled with a grotesque mask in relief, blued steel-spring, moulded figured walnut half-stock carved with foliage in relief, finely engraved cast and chiselled brass mounts (with minor differences in engraving) including pierced foliate side-plate involving a grotesque mask and two monster-heads, vacant escutcheon with coronet above and grotesque mask beneath, brass fore-end cap, faceted brass ramrod-pipes, and original brass-capped woooden ramrod
43¾in. (111.1cm.) barrels
Cf. the garniture of three-shot pistols and gun by the same maker in the Armoury of their Serene Highnesses the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, sold in Christie's, 15 April 1992, lot 255 (2)