Breech-Loading Swivel Gun with Two Chambers

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1358

Bronze breech-loading gun on a swivel.

The gun has a flower-shaped muzzle with a flat surface, and a round barrel. The trunnions are placed between two hoops. At the height of the trunnions there is a sight shaped like a snake on a four-part cushion. The eyes of the bronze yoke are forged around the trunnions, so that the gun cannot be removed from the yoke. The gun has a closed chamber breech and a tubular, hollow cascable button to fit a wooden tiller. With the gun belong two conical chambers with tapered neck and elegant handles (only one chamber depicted); their cylinders have a 4.5 cm calibre. The wedge is missing.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1358

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Breech-Loading Swivel Gun with Two Chambers, Indonesian Archipelago, 1750 - 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245163