Lot Essay
The vendor informs us that family tradition has it that this lantaka was brought back to England as a trophy in early Victorian times by an ancestor who had served as an officer on a merchant ship
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INDONESIAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A BRONZE LANTAKA
INDONESIAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With three-stage barrel with moulded muzzle, shaped standing fore-sight, slender tapering chase cast in low relief with triangular panels of foliage, octagonal reinforce with stylised dolphin lifting-handles and a crocodile towards the breech, the pierced vent at the tip of the crocodile's tail, ornate base-ring, and turned hollow cylindrical cascabel, with bronze peg-mount and two-piece wood stand, the latter with applied brass plaque engraved 'BUGI RIVER PIRATE GUN 35½'
35½in. (90.2cm.) barrel
INDONESIAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With three-stage barrel with moulded muzzle, shaped standing fore-sight, slender tapering chase cast in low relief with triangular panels of foliage, octagonal reinforce with stylised dolphin lifting-handles and a crocodile towards the breech, the pierced vent at the tip of the crocodile's tail, ornate base-ring, and turned hollow cylindrical cascabel, with bronze peg-mount and two-piece wood stand, the latter with applied brass plaque engraved 'BUGI RIVER PIRATE GUN 35½'
35½in. (90.2cm.) barrel