SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, BY WILLIAM PARKER, 233 HOLBORN, LONDON

Name: A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN BRONZE AND OAK SALUTING CANNON
Brand: SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, BY WILLIAM PARKER, 233 HOLBORN, LONDON
Price: 3200.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 4,032

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GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

Closed: 22 Sep 2022

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A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN BRONZE AND OAK SALUTING CANNON

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, BY WILLIAM PARKER, 233 HOLBORN, LONDON

Price Realised GBP 4,032

Closed: 22 Sep 2022

Price Realised GBP 4,032

Closed: 22 Sep 2022

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Each muzzle above a tapering multi-stage barrel with astragals and raised fillets temrinating in a knob, the base ring engraved 'W. PARKER, GUNMAKER, 233, HOLBORN, LONDON.', the first reinforce with a marquess's coronet above a 'C' cypher, with London proof marks and serial number '7029' and '7030' respectively, the trunnions and rimbases supported by a stepped bronzed carriage embellished on each side with a polychrome-painted coronet and cypher, on four ring-turned wheels
Each 12 in. (30 cm.) high; 19 in. (48.5 cm.); 9. 1/2 in. (24 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

William Parker (1772-1841) established his workshop at 233 High Holborn from 1793-1839 and was gunmaker to William IV, and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. As well as providing standard issue guns he also produced duelling pistols and more ceremonial items such as these cannon. That he was a supplier to the highest nobility is demonstrated by the present lot which bear a Marquess’s coronet above a cypher ‘C’. With only three Marquessates beginning with this letter in the British peerage, the present cannon must have been commissioned by the Marquess Camden, Cholmondeley or Conyngham. All three marquessates were newly granted in the second decade of the 19century and a commission of ceremonial weapons from the King’s own gunmaker was a fitting expression of political and social prestige.