CIRCA 1750, ALMOST CERTAINLY FROM THE STOCKMAR WORKSHOP
Details
A Fine 25-Bore Thuringian (Heidersbach) Flintlock Sporting Gun
Circa 1750, almost certainly from the Stockmar Workshop
With tapering sighted barrel of 'hog's back' form finely chiselled in relief on a gilt matted ground with rocailles and an elegant couple in contemporary sporting attire with a dog and dead game at their feet, tang en suite, silver fore-sight set within a panel of further rocailles, fully chiselled rounded lock with two stags and a hind in a wooded landscape on the plate, figured walnut full stock (minor repair to fore-stock) carved with rocailles and bouquets of flowers and inlaid with silver wire scrolls and silver pellets, iron mounts (fore-end cap missing) finely chiselled and gilt with further rococo ornament enclosing scenes of the chase, shaped escutcheon chiselled with a female portrait bust, pierced and chiselled trigger, and later wooden ramrod
37 7/8in. (96.2cm.) barrel
The Stockmar family, Court gunmakers to the Electors of Saxony in the middle decades of the 18th century, produced the finest chiselled firearms in the rococo taste outside Paris. Some of the most remarkable examples of their work are to be found in Dresden, at Windsor Castle and in the Wallace Collection. Only a few of their products are signed.
Circa 1750, almost certainly from the Stockmar Workshop
With tapering sighted barrel of 'hog's back' form finely chiselled in relief on a gilt matted ground with rocailles and an elegant couple in contemporary sporting attire with a dog and dead game at their feet, tang en suite, silver fore-sight set within a panel of further rocailles, fully chiselled rounded lock with two stags and a hind in a wooded landscape on the plate, figured walnut full stock (minor repair to fore-stock) carved with rocailles and bouquets of flowers and inlaid with silver wire scrolls and silver pellets, iron mounts (fore-end cap missing) finely chiselled and gilt with further rococo ornament enclosing scenes of the chase, shaped escutcheon chiselled with a female portrait bust, pierced and chiselled trigger, and later wooden ramrod
37 7/8in. (96.2cm.) barrel
The Stockmar family, Court gunmakers to the Electors of Saxony in the middle decades of the 18th century, produced the finest chiselled firearms in the rococo taste outside Paris. Some of the most remarkable examples of their work are to be found in Dresden, at Windsor Castle and in the Wallace Collection. Only a few of their products are signed.
Provenance
Sotheby & Co., 25 July 1947, Lot 94
Literature
J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, Vol II, plates 75 a-c
Exhibited
Willmer House Museum, Farnham, 3-29 April 1962, No. 20