A Pair Of Bronze Cannon Barrels

19TH CENTURY, PERHAPS SWEDISH

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A Pair Of Bronze Cannon Barrels
19th Century, perhaps Swedish
Each of tapering form with turned muzzle and cascabel, plain lifting handles and trunnions, and engraved with the inscription 'Donn par le roy de Suede/au Comte de Castja/Ambassadeur de France/Stockholm. 1733' above a coat-of-arms between the lifting handles and the vent
24in. (62.2cm.) (2)

拍品專文

The coat-of-arms is that of Charles-Louis de Biaudos, comte de Castja, who was appointed ambassador to the court of Stockholm by King Louis XV in 1727, after a distinguished military career, having taken part in the battles of Nijmegen (1702) and Malplaquet (1709), and in the sieges of Douai and Le Quesnoy (1712). He served with distinction as ambassador in Stockholm for eleven years, and died in 1755, aged seventy-two
King Fredrik of Sweden is known to have presented the count with two small bronze cannons cast with the count's coat-of-arms, and these were still in the hands of his descendants in the last century
See Le Chevalier de Courcelles, Histoire Gnalogique et Hraldique des Pairs de France...., Paris, 1822, vol. II, pp. 7-8