FIREARMS. ACCESSORIES. Alexandre Henri DUFRESNE de SAINT-LÉO - Lot 236

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FIREARMS. ACCESSORIES. Alexandre Henri DUFRESNE de SAINT-LÉO - Lot 236
FIREARMS. ACCESSORIES. Alexandre Henri DUFRESNE de SAINT-LÉON (1820-1903). Powder flask in blued iron, gold damascened with scrolls and foliage. L: 14.5 cm, stopper missing. 19th century. BE Count Alexandre Henry Dufresne de Saint-Léon was Inspector General of the University and a sculptor. He also worked as a chaser, damascenator, medallist and aquafortist. The inventor of a damascening process, he produced and decorated numerous objects, including firearms, bladed weapons and gunpowder flasks, a number of which are in the Musée d'Orsay collections, including a gunpowder flask identical to this one donated by the Dufresne de St Léon family in 1982.
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