BY JOSEPH GRIFFIN, LONDON, CIRCA 1760
Details
A 16-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Joseph Griffin, London, circa 1760
With browned two-stage counterfeit Spanish barrel with a ring at the muzzle, the octagonal breech with stamped finish, gold-inlaid inscription 'Esquibel En Madrid Anno 1719', two gold-lined punzónes in imitation of those of Diego Esquibel of Madrid, and a gold-lined cross and seven gold-lined decorative marks, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved tang, signed engraved rounded lock with water drains on the pan, walnut full stock with a shell carved in relief behind the barrel tang, take-down fore-end, iron mounts including pierced and chiselled side-plate, shaped vacant escutcheon, and engraved trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm
39 1/8in. (99.3cm.) barrel
Almost certainly made for Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt. (d. 1781), 'The Nabob of the North', patron of Robert Adam, Thomas Chippendale, Pierre Langlois and Johann Zoffany, to whom the Dundas armchairs, sofas and commodes sold at Christie's on 3 July 1997 were supplied
By Joseph Griffin, London, circa 1760
With browned two-stage counterfeit Spanish barrel with a ring at the muzzle, the octagonal breech with stamped finish, gold-inlaid inscription 'Esquibel En Madrid Anno 1719', two gold-lined punzónes in imitation of those of Diego Esquibel of Madrid, and a gold-lined cross and seven gold-lined decorative marks, gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved tang, signed engraved rounded lock with water drains on the pan, walnut full stock with a shell carved in relief behind the barrel tang, take-down fore-end, iron mounts including pierced and chiselled side-plate, shaped vacant escutcheon, and engraved trigger-guard with first pattern acorn finial, and horn-tipped ramrod with worm
39 1/8in. (99.3cm.) barrel
Almost certainly made for Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt. (d. 1781), 'The Nabob of the North', patron of Robert Adam, Thomas Chippendale, Pierre Langlois and Johann Zoffany, to whom the Dundas armchairs, sofas and commodes sold at Christie's on 3 July 1997 were supplied
Provenance
The Marquess of Zetland, Aske, Nr. Richmond, Yorkshire