Arquebuse de chasse à rouet, Silésie vers... - Lot 142 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Arquebuse de chasse à rouet, Silésie vers... - Lot 142 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Arquebuse de chasse à rouet, Silésie vers 1650-70. A Silesian wheel-lock game rifle, circa 1650-70. With swamped octagonal sighted smooth-bore barrel overlaid with three large brass panels engraved with foliage, the panel at the breech including the barrel maker's initials W (?) S, the lock engraved with a pair of stylised game animals, fitted with external wheel retained by a bevelled ring bracket, sliding pan-cover, the dog decorated with a pair of monsters, and with a pierced brass bridle over the dog and spring, with fruitwood full stock decorated over its length with a series of large pierced engraved brass plaques variously filled with mother-of-pearl and green-stained horn, one plaque on the butt involving a pair of monsters' head scrolls, the butt inlaid with further engraved brass plaques, including a chamois opposite the lock, a grotesque mask, and a pair of lions on the cheek-piece, all enriched with geometric patterns of mother-of-pearl plaques and pellets, the butt decorated with stylised mother-of-pearl flowerheads filled with green and white horn, on a ground sown with small brass nails, the patch-box cover faced with a brass panel engraved and inlaid en suite with the stock, with engraved slotted bands over the ramrod channel, iron trigger-guard, cowhorn butt-plate, set trigger, engraved brass fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod. L.: 126 cm - L. barrel: 97 cm. Provenance: Fürstlich Thunschen Gewehrkammer. Galerie Fischer, 24th June 1963, lot 137, illustrated. Galerie Fischer, 17th June 1964, lot 232 (CHF 3,200). The inlaid designs on the stock are characteristic of Silesia and in this instance are clearly influenced by the Russian traditional folk art. See KARGER, Viktor, Neue Teschner Beiträger zur Herkunftsfrage der Teschingen, in Waffen- und Kostumkünde, 1964, Heft I, pp.29-42.
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