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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE GILT-BRASS MOUNTED SAXON CARVED WOOD FLASK, FROG, SPANNER AND POUCH
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE GILT-BRASS MOUNTED SAXON CARVED WOOD FLASK, FROG, SPANNER AND POUCH
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE GILT-BRASS MOUNTED SAXON CARVED WOOD FLASK, FROG, SPANNER AND POUCH
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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE GILT-BRASS MOUNTED SAXON CARVED WOOD FLASK, FROG, SPANNER AND POUCH

PRESUMABLY DRESDEN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE GILT-BRASS MOUNTED SAXON CARVED WOOD FLASK, FROG, SPANNER AND POUCH
PRESUMABLY DRESDEN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The flask with ebonized wood body of flat, oval, rectangular section curved in an arc, the outer face with carved border, the central panel with a pikeman in early 17th century costume against a densely stippled ground , the reverse with stylized foliate scroll, fitted with pierced gilt-brass mounts engraved with foliate scrolls and strapwork, belt hook, and six suspension rings. The flask retains its original cloth covered frog (traces of velvet pile) with metallic thread borders, containing cartridge pouch, engraved gilt brass mount. Knotted suspension cord of intertwined black and gilt metal thread and attached iron spanner with turnscrew head.
7 in. high
来源
Frank E. Bivens Jr., Los Angeles, 1966.
Acquired by Russell Barnett Aitken from the above.
出版
F. Theodore Dexter, Half Century Scrapbook of Vari-Type Firearms, Los Angeles, 1960, no. 1051, pp. 37-38, plate 13.

荣誉呈献

Elizabeth Seigel
Elizabeth Seigel Vice President, Specialist, Head of Private and Iconic Collections
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拍品专文

Made for the Trabantenleibgarde of Christian II of Saxony (r. 1591-1611).

An almost identical example is on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (26.259.7).

This finely carved gunpowder flask, with its carrier, or 'frog', bullet pouch, and spanner belonged to the equipment issued to the bodyguard of the Prince-Electors of Saxony. About fifty such flasks were originally recorded in the inventories of the Dresden armory, most of them plainer, with metal mounts of blued steel. Those flasks with fittings of engraved gilt brass, like this example, must have been reserved for officers and are exceptionally rare today. The survival of their original black textile covering and gold braid trim is remarkable and can be credited with their centuries of care in the well maintained Dresden armory.

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