Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A North European sporting powder flask, carved bone, the lower part engraved with a woodland scene of a hunter in classical attire holding a boar at bay with dogs as a huntress approaches with drawn bow (possibly Meleager and Atalanta hunting the Calydonian Boar), engraved borders of overlapping leaves; the upper part ribbed, and surmounted by a spiral-fluted spout of polished horn; with a wooden base and two loose suspension rings.