A MASSIVE SWEDISH SILVER MOUNTED PODOLIAN OX HORN CENTERPIECE MARK OF GUSTAV MOLLENBORG, STOCKHOLM, 1897

The twisting horn applied at the top with a cast frieze depicting classical figures leading cattle between Vitruvian scroll bands, ribbon-bound oak leaves and anthemion borders, surmounted by a male archer, his bow drawn and with an arrow trained on an eagle and serpent in vicious combat capping the other end of the horn, the horn supported on a stem formed by four ox's heads and crowning acanthus leaves, the base encircled by another serpent battling a griffin, all on a square pink granite base with silver mounts and four ball feet, marked throughout
Approx. 63 in. (160 cm.) high

Provenance
The horn, by repute in the collection of Charles XV (1826 - 1872), King of Sweden and Norway.

The silver-mounted horn centerpiece:
B.G.J. Cavalli; Sotheby's, Geneva, 9 May 1988, lot 77.
The Victor Niederhoffer Collection of Trophy and Presentation Silver; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1998, lot 174.