Lot 165
165
A PAIR OF DUTCH MODEL FIELD GUNS, each with multi-staged tapering bronze barrel, foliate mouldings, and naturalistic dolphin lifting handles, the chases stamped with the date 1676 and the Maastricht mark, the first reinforces each cast with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and engraved on the underside with the inscription 'Wm. Ellis Gosling A.D. 1828', the touch-holes each with hinged cover, the cascabels decorated with acanthus foliage: on their veneered brass-mounted carriages (some losses and repairs) with cambered spoked wheels, and each with a cleaning-rod, dated 1676

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A PAIR OF DUTCH MODEL FIELD GUNS, each with multi-staged tapering bronze barrel, foliate mouldings, and naturalistic dolphin lifting handles, the chases stamped with the date 1676 and the Maastricht mark, the first reinforces each cast with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and engraved on the underside with the inscription 'Wm. Ellis Gosling A.D. 1828', the touch-holes each with hinged cover, the cascabels decorated with acanthus foliage: on their veneered brass-mounted carriages (some losses and repairs) with cambered spoked wheels, and each with a cleaning-rod, dated 1676
16½in. barrels (2)

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The arms are those of William, Prince of Nassau (1650-1702), Prince of Orange, Stadholder, only child of Prince William II of Orange and of Princess Mary, daughter of King James II

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