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Lot Essay
The decoration is based on the Claude Simonin pattern books of 1684/1685 and 1695
Nicholas Paris set up his business in Jury Street, Warwick in 1669, and was buried in Warwick on 5 October 1716. His most important patron was Thomas Leigh, 2nd Baron of Stoneleigh. As well as being a gunmaker, Paris also worked as a blacksmith, watch maker, gilder and enameller, and carried out various other works within the City of Warwick
Cf. a very similar gun (made for Thomas Leigh) included in a sale in these Rooms, 18 November 1981, lot 234, now in the Warwick County Museum, and another (made for the Duke of Beaufort) in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII. 1546)
For further information on the Paris family, the most inventive and adaptable English provincial gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, see Neal and Back, op. cit., pp. 265-70, 273-5, and J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. II, pp. 83-4
Nicholas Paris set up his business in Jury Street, Warwick in 1669, and was buried in Warwick on 5 October 1716. His most important patron was Thomas Leigh, 2nd Baron of Stoneleigh. As well as being a gunmaker, Paris also worked as a blacksmith, watch maker, gilder and enameller, and carried out various other works within the City of Warwick
Cf. a very similar gun (made for Thomas Leigh) included in a sale in these Rooms, 18 November 1981, lot 234, now in the Warwick County Museum, and another (made for the Duke of Beaufort) in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII. 1546)
For further information on the Paris family, the most inventive and adaptable English provincial gunmakers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, see Neal and Back, op. cit., pp. 265-70, 273-5, and J.F. Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker, vol. II, pp. 83-4