Description
Double-barrel tabletop shotgun by Boutet in Versailles. Modified flintlock percussion caps signed "Manufre A Versailles" and "Boutet Directeur Artiste". Dogs of zoomorphic forms assembled with guilloche screws. Double barrel in table with double registers with sides then round inlaid of gold with the thunder. Stick in drowning finely engraved with the rest fingers of scales and vegetable garlands. Squared stock with a leather cheek rest padded with horsehair, restoration. All iron fittings. Missing ramrod. France, First Empire period.
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Double-barrel tabletop shotgun by Boutet in Versailles. Modified flintlock percussion caps signed "Manufre A Versailles" and "Boutet Directeur Artiste". Dogs of zoomorphic forms assembled with guilloche screws. Double barrel in table with double registers with sides then round inlaid of gold with the thunder. Stick in drowning finely engraved with the rest fingers of scales and vegetable garlands. Squared stock with a leather cheek rest padded with horsehair, restoration. All iron fittings. Missing ramrod. France, First Empire period.