Prince Charles Edward Stuart's, ivory and silver mounted baroque flute
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
£7,500
Description
the ivory shaft composed of four sections, shaped detail to mouthpiece, simple reeded silver collar mount
Dimensions
61cm long
Footnote
Provenance:
Property of Mrs Gordon of Hallhead
Seized as a Jacobite relic from her property by Major-General Henry Hawly, from her house in Aberdeen when billited there on Hanoverian side February 1746
by repute given to a member of his staff
Private Collection