An exceptional Rare Finely Carved Silver Mounted ‘Bugbear’ Coconut Flask with a Scene of Two Native North American Woodlanders Hunting a Caribou with Spears and a Hound Dog. The whole covered with flowering tendrils leaves and foliage the glass eyes set in silver the silver stopper and surround engraved with a sun motif. Undamaged and complete in exceptional condition.
A silver roundel to the base with initials
Probably French sailors work
Late 18th – Early 19th Century
Size: 9cm high, 9cm wide, 14cm deep - 3½ ins high, 3½ ins wide, 5½ ins deep
An exceptional Rare Finely Carved Silver Mounted ‘Bugbear’ Coconut Flask with a Scene of Two Native North American Woodlanders Hunting a Caribou with Spears and a Hound Dog. The whole covered with flowering tendrils leaves and foliage the glass eyes set in silver the silver stopper and surround engraved with a sun motif. Undamaged and complete in exceptional condition.
A silver roundel to the base with initials
Probably French sailors work
Late 18th – Early 19th Century
Size: 9cm high, 9cm wide, 14cm deep - 3½ ins high, 3½ ins wide, 5½ ins deep
