Lot 99
99
A LARGE GERMAN IRON HACKBUT BARREL, of octagonal section at the breech where it is deeply recessed for a wooden butt (missing), changing to hexagonal and tapering slightly to the wide flat muzzle-ring, the latter incised with a pair of zig-zag lines, triangular recoil-hook underneath towards the muzzle, the breech with red painted armoury number 486, and struck with maker's mark, a cross in a shield, early 16th Century

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A LARGE GERMAN IRON HACKBUT BARREL, of octagonal section at the breech where it is deeply recessed for a wooden butt (missing), changing to hexagonal and tapering slightly to the wide flat muzzle-ring, the latter incised with a pair of zig-zag lines, triangular recoil-hook underneath towards the muzzle, the breech with red painted armoury number 486, and struck with maker's mark, a cross in a shield, early 16th Century
43¾in.
Provenance
Probably from the Hohenzollern Collection, Sigmaringen

Lot Essay

An example of a type of gun, fired from a stand or over a wall, of which many examples are illustrated in the early 16th Century Arsenal Books (Zengbücher) of the Emperor Maximilian I, a number of which survive in Vienna. See Kunsthistoriches Museum, Katalog der Leibaüstkammer, I, pl. 102; Wendelin Boeheim, "Die Zengbücher des Kaiser Maximilian I", Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, XIII & XV, pp. 44-201, 295-391

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