AN ENAMELLED GOLD POWDER-FLASK Early 17th Century and later With circular body forming a gold frame decorated with green and white champlev enamel, securing foil-backed mail en rsille glass panels, those on the front and back comprising a convex border of panels decorated with strapwork and floral motifs with dragonflies and divided by six applied enamelled gold straps, in the centre a flat circular panel with a scene of a horseman in late sixteenth-century costume killing a hind with a sword, in a wooded landscape with an attendant armed with a spear, hounds and a stag, around the sides hounds and animals of the chase divided by applied enamelled gold straps, the colours gold, white, green, yellow and blue against a green ground, tapering spout with champlev enamel flowers, enamelled lever cut-off (spring incomplete) set with a green cabochon beryl, and two enamelled suspension rings carrying a cord of woven silk and gold thread (slight damage to enamel) 4 in. (10.9 cm.) diam.
AN ENAMELLED GOLD POWDER-FLASK Early 17th Century and later With circular body forming a gold frame decorated with green and white champlev enamel, securing foil-backed mail en rsille glass panels, those on the front and back comprising a convex border of panels decorated with strapwork and floral motifs with dragonflies and divided by six applied enamelled gold straps, in the centre a flat circular panel with a scene of a horseman in late sixteenth-century costume killing a hind with a sword, in a wooded landscape with an attendant armed with a spear, hounds and a stag, around the sides hounds and animals of the chase divided by applied enamelled gold straps, the colours gold, white, green, yellow and blue against a green ground, tapering spout with champlev enamel flowers, enamelled lever cut-off (spring incomplete) set with a green cabochon beryl, and two enamelled suspension rings carrying a cord of woven silk and gold thread (slight damage to enamel) 4 in. (10.9 cm.) diam.
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