Cleaner for Flash Pan and Lock from the Gun Set of Mahmud I

Description This is part of the so-called "Turkish Hunting Set" consisting of the Ottoman gun (Walters 51.84) and various accessories contained within a large Parisian case (Walters 64.165). The head of the cleaner is silver and set with diamonds. There is a small pin at one side of the head which is designed to fit inside the diamond set bezel at right of the breech of the gun (51.84).The screw shank of the cleaner is engraved with a spiral and the shaft is also engraved and drilled with irregular patterns. There may have been a small tassel or pull ribbon connected through a hole in the head of the cleaner. This object would have been used to clean the flash-pan and the lock of the Ottoman gun (Walters 51.84).

Conservation

Examined and cleaned in preparation for exhibition.

Examined and cleaned in preparation for exhibition.

Date	Description	Narrative
12/31/1969	Examination	Examined, cleaned.
12/31/1969	Treatment	Examined, cleaned.

Exhibitions

• The Art of Writing Instruments from Paris to Persia. 2011.
• Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. 2015-2016.

Provenance Robert S. Pardo, Istanbul; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1903