An interesting Dutch polychrome painted armorial Royal Guards or 'schutterij' ceremonial drum used by the Orangist militia dated 1783

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 EUR

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Description

drum: 42cm. high, 38.5cm. diameter; overall: 63.5cm. high, 49.5cm. diameter.

the brass drum finely painted with the coat-of-arms of the Van der Heijden family with two flanking lions, with ribbon with text Souvenir Ritmeester W.I. v.d. Heijden and with painted and engraved shields with names of I.K. Teulings, I.A. De Vrom, W.I. v.d. Heijden, I.H.R. Kaeymakers, A.D. Raeymakers, W.L.D. Kinderen and date 1783, now mounted as a table