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The horn is 20 inches long tip to rim, and holds 27 ounces.As always, lined in parrafin for foodsafe drinking!
The designs and motifs are a border of serpents entwined, and triskeles. Both are period, and fairly broad in period, being appropriate for a Celt as well as a viking or any in between from 1100 to 1400.
Moreover, the designs, techniques and presentation are as accurate to period and authenticity as I could make it. The designs were fully researched and are drawn form artifacts and period sources, and are fully documentable.There are some deliberate flaws in the execution, as I have replicated flaws common to the actual artifacts.
Tools used were scribes ( from a nail) small knives and a hand bore to stipple. The horn was lightly distressed and aged to bring out the character of the horn, and the designs are typical in the pebbling, stippling and carving work. Typical of the work in period , the craftsmanship is there to see, along with the intricate detail, but not the computerlike perfection we are accustomed to - the mark of the artists hand remains evident.
One one hand, I regard it perhaps as less pretty than some Ive done, and yet I have found deep satisfaction in that this is as true to a horn found as artifact as I could manage it. The fellow who owns this horn won't have a concession to modernity, nor the machine like quality of many more contemporary designs - but what he will have is an absolutely authentic item for his presentation.
This horn can be had for 75.00 plus shipping.
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