Flint gun with ivory drawer, Part of a couple. The lock has been worked and chiseled, the lock plate is engraved with leafy scrolls and a winged female figure that forms a cartouche for a signature, MAESTRICHT is on the back. The loop is engraved with lofwerk, a crowned rosette is flanked by the letters I and R. the solid ivory flask is embossed with grotesque animal masks and huddles, the handle is engraved with acanthus leaves and ends after a band of brass in the separately arranged butt knob that is carved all around like the head of a Classic warrior with a helmet on with a plume, grotesque faces and on top a dragon. The batter is partly made of gold-plated iron and partly made of gold-plated copper and consists of a screw plate with leaf rims around female nudes and dragons lying behind., Jean Louroux, Maastricht, before 1670, ivory, brass (alloy), iron (metal), gilding (material), gilding, l 51 cm l 34.3 cm d 13 mm w 938 gr
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