The price reflected the quality of the workmanship displayed by the Prague maker, Paul Ignatius Poser, and the decorator, Franz Matzendorf. They are covered with leaf motifs, mythological figures and battle scenes including skirmishes with the Turks.
Ivory details
Coming up at Hermann Historica’s November 6-10/19-23 auction is this pair of Dutch flintlock pistols with ivory stocks, c.1690.
The lock plates, engraved with scrolling foliage, are signed Pomponi. The full stocks are of finely carved ivory with fire-gilt brass noses, and the pommels (detail also above) are carved in the form of Turk’s heads, the hair merging into lion head mascarons. They are estimated at €60,000.
