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NORTH-EAST GERMAN, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
A powder flask
horn and amber; with silver mounts and chain; the amber panel to the base set with an oval relief of a stag hunt, the horn carved with a coat-of-arms and a trophy, the spout carved as a fantastical fish with amber eyes; on a modern metal stand

77⁄8 in. (20 cm.) long


Provenance
A private collection.
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Lot Essay

A comparable horn is housed in the collection of The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, inv. no. 4760.

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