Kettle Drums

Franz Peter Bundsen Hanoverian (German)

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 683

This pair of drums was creatied for the Royal Life Guards of George III. A lion, representing England, and a unicorn, representing Scotland, support the royal arms. Scottish kings adopted the unicorn as their emblem from the time of James III (r. 1451-88). His son and, later, his grandson, James V, owned suites of unicorn tapestries - six "great" and eight "little" ones representing the Hunt of the Unicorn.

The pairing of a lion and a unicorn, still used today on the British royal arms, dates to the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when James VI of Scotland assumed the english thrown as well, as James I.

Kettle Drums, Franz Peter Bundsen (ca. 1725–1795 (master 1754)), Silver, iron, calfskin, textiles, gilding,, Hanoverian (German)

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Kettle Drums, Franz Peter Bundsen (ca. 1725–1795 (master 1754)), Silver, iron, calfskin, textiles, gilding,, Hanoverian (German)
Kettle Drums, Franz Peter Bundsen (ca. 1725–1795 (master 1754)), Silver, iron, calfskin, textiles, gilding,, Hanoverian (German)
Kettle Drums, Franz Peter Bundsen (ca. 1725–1795 (master 1754)), Silver, iron, calfskin, textiles, gilding,, Hanoverian (German)
Kettle Drums, Franz Peter Bundsen (ca. 1725–1795 (master 1754)), Silver, iron, calfskin, textiles, gilding,, Hanoverian (German)
Kettle Drums, Franz Peter Bundsen (ca. 1725–1795 (master 1754)), Silver, iron, calfskin, textiles, gilding,, Hanoverian (German)

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