Sale 7468
London
|
20 September 2007
Price realised
GBP 1,062
Estimate
A GERMAN BRONZE MODEL CANNON ON AN ASSOCIATED CARRIAGE 19th Century With heavy bronze multi-stage barrel cast with a series of astragals and stepped fillets, a raised cartouche on the first reinforce engraved with the owner's monogram 'SC', cascable button, and plain trunnions (lifting handle removed): on an iron-mounted wooden carriage with hinged cap-squares and iron-shod spoked cambered wheels. 16¼in (41.3cm) barrel
Provenance
Henry, Prinz von Hohenzollern, Grant's Art Galleries, Chicago, December 1-13, 1924, lot 942
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