Flintlock shotgun, single barrel with two registers, fluted - Lot 450

Flintlock shotgun, single barrel with two registers, fluted then round, white polished, lightly engraved with a thunder frieze, silver sight engraved, around, with four small flowers, caliber 15 mm, length 99.5 cm; engraved breech; flat-body lock, signed: "CLAUDE NIQUET A LIEGE", swan-neck hammer, blued mordache, screw and bassinet; very fine bronze fittings, finely chased and gilded, decorated with figures, trophies, grotesque masks and foliage, thumb piece decorated with figures and surmounted by a royal crown; veined walnut stock in the shape of a "cow's foot", carved around the fittings and breech tail; wooden ramrod finished with a brass nail; overall length 137.5 cm. Period, Belgium, Liège, circa 1730/1750. Very good, near-new condition. 2 000/2 500 Claude NIQUET I, harquebusier and engraver in Liège in 1690/1740. Claude NIQUET II, harquebusier and engraver in Liège in PROVENANCE: KEITH NEAL collection. A pair of flintlock pistols by Claude NIQUET, with identical fittings, from the KEITH NEAL collection, sold in London at Christie's, October 25, 2001, no. 257.