gunpowder-flask
- Museum number
- WB.14
- Description
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Mount of a powder-flask; triangular; iron damascened with gold and pierced; decoration of arabesques and festoons, enclosing figures, cornucopiae and a bird and dolphin; in middle of frame is crowned monogram in relief; nozzle has pair of busts with scrolls.
- Production date
- 1525-1575
- Dimensions
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Height: 24 centimetres (mount and nozzle)
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Height: 18.20 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 6.40 centimetres (nozzle)
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Length: 6.60 centimetres (nozzle)
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Weight: 256 grammes
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Width: 23.50 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 3.10 centimetres (nozzle)
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Provenance: Baron Anselm von Rothschild, Vienna, between 1866 and 1872 (cat no. 518), by inheritance to his son Baron Ferdinand Rothschild (d. 1898).
Bibliography: Charles Hercules Read, 'The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898', London, 1902, no. 14; O.M. Dalton, 'The Waddesdon Bequest', 2nd edn (rev), British Museum, London, 1927, no.14.
- Location
- On display (G2a/dc3)
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Acquisition notes
- This collection is known as the Waddesdon Bequest under the terms of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild’s will.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- WB.14