Lot n° 153
Estimation :
50000 - 70000
EUR
Résultats sans frais
Résultat
: 28 000EUR
Très belle paire de pistolets de ceinture... - Lot 153 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Très belle paire de pistolets de ceinture à rouet par Giovan Antonio Gavacciolo, le platineur et le ciseleur prédominant de Brescia à son époque, très certainement l'achat d'un aristocrate anglais lors de son Grand Tour, Italie vers 1640. A very fine pair of wheel-lock belt pistols by Giovan Antonio Gavacciolo, the pre-eminent Brescian lock-maker and iron chiseller of his time, most likely an aristocratic trophy of the Grand Tour, Italy circa 1640. The locks each struck on the inside with the oval maker's mark of Giovan Antonio Gavacciolo involving the initials GAG and a phoenix (Neue Støckel 427), with finely engraved and chiselled interior detail including the spindle-bracket decorated with scrolling acanthus, the outer face with border panels of foliage and flowerheads cut in low relief, each fitted with chiselled sliding pan-cover, external wheel cut with a finely fluted rosette impaled by the spindle, the dog chiselled with acanthus ornament in high relief, the wheel-bracket and the dog-spring each chiselled as a nude female figure, and the wheel spindle, the pan-cover and the jaw screw all with a small chiselled pomegranate finial, moulded figured walnut stocks inset with a series of flat iron plaques very delicately pierced and engraved with lace-like patterns of scrolling foliage, involving pairs of monsters' heads, varieties of flowerheads, and pairs of cornucopia opposite the locks, the pommels each bound with an iron band chiselled with fruit and leaves, chiselled iron trigger-guards pierced over the bow en suite with the stocks, chiselled belt hooks, chiselled moulded triggers, and short wooden ramrods each with chiselled moulded iron tip. One stock retains a stick-on label, apparently that of the Royal Archeological Institute (illegible). The pistols mounted with a pair of English duelling pistol barrels, a perfect fit and almost certainly expressly intended for these pistols, unusually finished in the white, each with silver fore-sight, back-sight, fin
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