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Identification
Title(s): Breech-Loading Swivel Gun with Two Chambers
Object type: Lilla (lela cannon) [actually a cetbang]
Object number: NG-MC-1358
Description: 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); the barrel has a 4.5 cm calibre. The wedge is missing.

Manufacture
Maker: Gun: anonymous
Place of manufacture: Indonesian Archipelago (possibly)
Date: 1750 - 1850
Material: bronze
Dimensions:
Whole: length 180,5 cm, width 21,5 cm.
Muzzle: diameter 16,5 cm.
Base handle: length 10,5 cm.
Base to flared muzzle: length 170 cm, calibre 5,5 cm, weight 120,8 kg.
Chamber: height 35 cm, calibre 4,5 cm.

Data unknown: height 13 cm, width 277,5 cm, diameter 78 cm, weight 30 kg.
Total: weight 363 kg (incl. specimen, NG-NM-9345-A and NG-2000-33)

Acquisition and rights
Acquisition: Transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Copyright: Public domain