Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A FINE PAIR OF FLEMISH OAK AND FRUITWOOD BELLOWS

POSSIBLY DATED '1701'

carved in deep relief with a scene, depicting David and Potiphar's wife in a Baroque interior, inside a scrolling foliate border and inscribed '17010', the backing with a heart-shaped opening, and above a turned bronze nozzle, applied with paper labels for 'The Treasures Exhibition, 1857, Museum of Art' and the 'Bristol Industrial Exhibition, 1861' each time contributed to by Revd. G. Braikenridge

58.5cm long

Provenance

The Howard Collection of Oak and Works of Art.

Catalogue Note

There is a stamped ‘Posthorn’ mark to the nozzle which could be for a Nuremberg maker, a similar mark is shown in ‘Die Merkzeichen der Nurnberger Rotschmiede’ by Hermann P. Lockner, page 284, entry 134 (a).