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Powder Flask
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Powder Flask |
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English: The powder flask (also known as a priming flask) was an essential firearm accessory and held the fine powder needed to make the gun fire. Gunmakers in India during the Mughal era (1526-1858) specialized in carving ivory powder flasks with animal figures. Often, as these two examples, the decoration consists of intertwined and composite creatures that seem to grow out of or attack one another. One such menagerie, on the right-hand flask, includes a cheetah or lion chasing an antelope in the center, and bucks, antelopes, lions, birds, a boar, elephant, and mongoose at the two ends. Many of these animals were regularly hunted (or used for hunts, as with the elephant), in Mughal India. |
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| Date | 18th century (Early Modern) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | ivory set with amber, steel | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 6.2 × 16.2 × 2.5 cm (2.4 × 6.3 × 0.9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
71.419 |
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| Place of creation | India | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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