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Title
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A FINE GERMAN SLURBOW
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HCA Identifier
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122
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Collection Location
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Private Collection
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Date
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DATED '1657'
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Description
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With slender steel bow retained by cords, with cord string and pom-poms (one pom-pom missing, the string and pom-poms early replacements), moulded fruitwood tiller carved with a scroll in front of the cheek-piece and inlaid over much of its surface with engraved staghorn pellets and flowers, the butt decorated with three differing portrait heads on the right, the raised cheek-piece inlaid with a coat-of-arms, scrolls, a cornucopia, a castle within a landscape, and the abbreviated inscription 'I. W.V.R. AD 1657', bone bolt-channel and fruitwood bolt-guide, the latter decorated with engraved staghorn birds, iron nut, small stirrup, shaped trigger-guard, and set triggers 24 ½ in. (62.2cm.) long
£3,500-4,000
US$5,300-6,000
€4,000-4,500
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, London, 7 December 2001, lot 5$
This bow appears to have been refurbished in the 19th century
