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- Powder-flask
- Unknown Artist / Maker
- Germany
- c. 1600
- Wood, velvet, copper alloy, silver and chiselled
- Height: 13 cm
Weight: 0.22 kg - A1280
- European Armoury III
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- Powder-flask, of triangular form with concave sides, of wood covered with black velvet, the front overlaid with openwork ornament of silver parcel-gilt, consisting of trophies of arms in relief surrounding a central plaque of brass cast in relief and originally silvered illustrating a mounted warrior carrying off a naked woman (previously thought to represent the Rape of the Sabines). The back is edged with silver, and the sides and base have applied silver rosettes; in the centre of the back is a grotesque mask of chiselled silver. The funnel is shaped as a classical cuirass with spring stopper (the cap and spring now missing); two rings for suspension. The stopper lever is chiselled at both the pivot and the lower end with fleurs-de-lys.
German, about 1600.
Provenance: comte de Nieuwerkerke. Illustrated in Vollon's Curiosités of 1868 (Savill, 1980). A similar flask at Waddesdon Manor is discussed by Blair (1974, no. 150).
- Powder-flask, of triangular form with concave sides, of wood covered with black velvet, the front overlaid with openwork ornament of silver parcel-gilt, consisting of trophies of arms in relief surrounding a central plaque of brass cast in relief and originally silvered illustrating a mounted warrior carrying off a naked woman (previously thought to represent the Rape of the Sabines). The back is edged with silver, and the sides and base have applied silver rosettes; in the centre of the back is a grotesque mask of chiselled silver. The funnel is shaped as a classical cuirass with spring stopper (the cap and spring now missing); two rings for suspension. The stopper lever is chiselled at both the pivot and the lower end with fleurs-de-lys.
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