AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY SCOTTISH POWDER HORN ‡
Auction: Day 2: Thursday 21 August - Lots 297 - end
Description
the flattened cow horn with wooden plug, the body with carved foliate decoration with crowned crossed swords, fleur de lys and motto MEREOR NI ME PROME, the opposing side with serpent clasping his tail around a displayed rose with foliate trailing decoration each tapered end with sea monster emanating from nozzle
Dimensions
21cm long
Provenance
The Jacobites and Their Adversaries, Christies Glasgow, 12th June 1996, lot 138
The John Kirk Collection
Footnote
Literature: See Ancient Scottish Weapons by James Drummond item 146, plate XXI, for a similar example, with carved foliage and sea monsters but with different iconography to wider carved areas, previously in Perth Museum and having belonged to the Duke of Perth.