Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols
Gunsmith François-Alexander Chasteau French
Pistols with side-by-side barrels became popular in England and France in the second half of the eighteenth century. This luxuriously decorated French pair exhibits the fashionable Rococo taste for asymmetry and whimsy in its elaborate parcel-gilt silver mounts and silver-wire inlay.
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