Flintlock gun by Nicholas Noel Boutet. Versailles, France, about 1802.
Flintlock gun by Nicholas Noel Boutet, Versailles, France, about 1802. Probably No.1 of 6, marked as such on sideplate. Presented as a gift in 1802 to King Charles IV of Spain from Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France. Of exceptional quality, with Egyptian three-dimensional caryatid on the underside of the stock. XII.1278
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