ID 932160
Los 149 | A FINE AND RARE MIQUELET LOCK GUN (SHISHANA)
Schätzwert
£ 20 000 – 30 000
OTTOMAN TURKEY, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The watered steel barrel inlaid with thick gold floral and foliate decoration, the anthropomorphic swollen muzzle inlaid with further gold foliate decoration and silver for the mouth, the stock of finely figured Circassian walnut with an ebony butt inlaid and engraved with silver and narrow bands of ivory and painted horn, the lock with further gold foliate decoration and a red leather thumb-guard below, silvered panels and peep-sight above the lock, ivory-tipped ramrod
58in. (147.5cm.) long
Literature
Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, London, 2013, no. 650, p. 269
Special notice
Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.
| Herkunftsort: | Asien, Osmanisches Reich, Türkei |
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| Kategorie: | Gewehr |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Gemälde, Schusswaffen |
| Herkunftsort: | Asien, Osmanisches Reich, Türkei |
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| Kategorie: | Gewehr |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Gemälde, Schusswaffen |
| Adresse der Versteigerung |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Vereinigtes Königreich | |
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| Telefon | +44 (0)20 7839 9060 | |
| Aufgeld | see on Website | |
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