Lot Essay
The maker, Johann Matthias Langenegger, is best known as a Munich bell founder.
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OTHER PROPERTIES
A FINE GERMAN BRONZE MODEL CANNON ON CARRIAGE
LANGENEGGER, DATED '1714'
Details
A FINE GERMAN BRONZE MODEL CANNON ON CARRIAGE
LANGENEGGER, DATED '1714'
With six-stage barrel with stylised dolphin lifting-handles, turned reinforce rings and mouldings bordered by decorative bands of foliage, pierced vent, the second reinforce and cascable incised with foliage against a stippled ground, the former signed 'FEC / IT I:M: / LANGENE / GGER ANNO / 1714', on iron-mounted wooden carriage
Barrel 18 in. (46 cm.); carriage 28 in. (71 cm.)
LANGENEGGER, DATED '1714'
With six-stage barrel with stylised dolphin lifting-handles, turned reinforce rings and mouldings bordered by decorative bands of foliage, pierced vent, the second reinforce and cascable incised with foliage against a stippled ground, the former signed 'FEC / IT I:M: / LANGENE / GGER ANNO / 1714', on iron-mounted wooden carriage
Barrel 18 in. (46 cm.); carriage 28 in. (71 cm.)