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19TH CENTURY
Details
A SILVER-MOUNTED CARVED IVORY POWDER-FLASK
19th Century
With curved body, the front finely decorated in relief with the departure for a hunt in front of a fortification, involving figures in 16th-century costume, the back flattened and left plain, the tap cast and chased in relief with a monster-head and foliage
10in.
19th Century
With curved body, the front finely decorated in relief with the departure for a hunt in front of a fortification, involving figures in 16th-century costume, the back flattened and left plain, the tap cast and chased in relief with a monster-head and foliage
10in.
Provenance
T.K. North, Christie's, 29 July 1919, lot 85
Herbert J. Jackson, Sotheby & Co., 1 March 1923, lot 40 (illustrated)
Frank E. Bivens, Jr.
Herbert J. Jackson, Sotheby & Co., 1 March 1923, lot 40 (illustrated)
Frank E. Bivens, Jr.
Literature
Herbert J. Jackson, European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries, p. 10, plate XVII, fig. 30
F.H. Cripps-Day, A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924, pp. 173, 264
Ray Riling, The Powder Flask Book, p. 408, no. 1220
F.H. Cripps-Day, A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924, pp. 173, 264
Ray Riling, The Powder Flask Book, p. 408, no. 1220
Special notice
Notice Regarding the Sale of Material from Endangered Species.
Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country