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A Fine Pair Of German Bronze Cannon Barrels
Circa 1530

Antique Arms and Armour
25 July 2012, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Pair Of German Bronze Cannon Barrels
Circa 1530

Of tapering multi-stage form with raised mouldings, each finely cast and chased behind the turned and moulded muzzle with a scaled and rayed monster's head spitting fire against a punched ground, the second reinforce with spiral twists, the first reinforce of octagonal section, plain trunnions, hinged touch-hole cover (the other missing), and cascabel cast in relief as a lion's mask against a punched ground: on later bronze rampart carriages each with openwork sides signed 'Parker, Field & Sons, 233 Holborn, London' along one side, and bronze trucks pierced with circular holes (2)
45.5 cm. barrels, 1.7 cm. bores

Footnotes

Provenance:
The John Beardmore Collection, Uplands, Fareham, Hampshire
Thence by descent

For cannons with similar rayed monster-head decoration see Heinrich Mueller, Deutsche Bronzegeschuetzrohre 1400-1750, 1968, pp. 91 and 138

Cf. A Very similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour, 14 April 2005, lot 208

Parker, Field & Sons are recorded at 233 High Holborn between 1841 and 1876. The company was Contractor to Ordnance from 1841, to the East India Company between 1841 and 1850, to the Hudson's Bay Company from 1843 to 1851, and were armourers to the Metropolitan Police

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.