A FINE BRASS CANNON with eight-stage barrel with turned muzzle, raised mouldings, and foliate lifting handles, the flat surfaces chased with foliage and strapwork on a punched ground, the first reinforce with a coat-of-arms in relief with crested helm above and scrollwork on each side, the cascabel cast and chased with acanthus foliage in relief against a punched ground; on its painted brass-mounted oak carriage with later wheels, the cheeks with applied decorative brass plates pierced and chased with scrollwork, second half of the 17th Century
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A FINE BRASS CANNON with eight-stage barrel with turned muzzle, raised mouldings, and foliate lifting handles, the flat surfaces chased with foliage and strapwork on a punched ground, the first reinforce with a coat-of-arms in relief with crested helm above and scrollwork on each side, the cascabel cast and chased with acanthus foliage in relief against a punched ground; on its painted brass-mounted oak carriage with later wheels, the cheeks with applied decorative brass plates pierced and chased with scrollwork, second half of the 17th Century
24¼in. barrel [E.103]