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Port-Flask with Powder Flask and Bullet-and-Cartridge Pouch
This "port-flask" is from a series made for members of the bodyguard of the lectors of Saxony Christian II (reigned 1591/1601-11) or Johann Georg I (reigned 1611-56) who used wheel-lock carbines. The relief depicts a guard member carrying a ceremonial halberd.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 23; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Germany, Dresden (Place of Origin)
Measurements
15 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (39 x 21 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.558