Creative Commons License
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Priming Flask
This is for the finely ground priming powder that was added to the pan in the lock. This would have been appropriate as a gift for the owner of a wheel-lock pistol. Such gifts were an integral part of (male) courtly culture.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Escosura (?); Clements (?); Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 30; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Germany, Nuremberg (Place of Origin)
Measurements
3 x 2 7/16 in. (7.6 x 6.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.571