This is a gilded model cannon from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is dated to around 1745. There is some measure of controversy with this and other objects because they are accused of being obtained by military actions during the Dutch Empire. I think of all the, perhaps, millions of objects in many of the museums in the world that were obtained during conflicts. It is just one of those issues that keep smoldering out there in the world like U.S. Civil War statues.
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