AN OMAR RAMSDEN SILVER-MOUNTED WALNUT MAZER BOWL, LONDON, 1929

拍品描述

with broad flared rim, the interior with a central boss of a medieval galleon, with a latin inscription in gothic script: 'NEC SEMPER FERIET QUODCUNQUE MINABITUR ARCUS', 'NOR WILL THE BOW ALWAYS HIT WHATEVER IT AIMS AT', all raised on a circular foot, struck marks Diameter 16.5cm Weight 445g The quotation is taken from Horace's Ars Poetica, c.19 BC, often inscribed on Arts and Crafts-style metalwork

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