CIRCA 1580

细节

A GERMAN CARVED STAGHORN POWDER-FLASK
Circa 1580
With forked body, the inner-face engraved with a pattern of spirals of tendrils sown with leaves and enlosing an engraved bird-of-prey roundel, the outer-face carved in relief with two figures from mythology, probably Circe the Sorceress overcome by Ulysses, and within an elaborate frame of strapwork and flowers (the top and the belt hook each replaced, the basal points with later horn caps).
8¾in (22.2cm)

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拍品专文

The figural composition is taken directly from an engraving of The Rape of Lucretia by Georg Pencz (circa 1500-1550). The attributes of feasting carved into the background interior on the flask accord to a far greater degree with the story of Circe.