Matchlock Gun

Indian, Rajasthan, possibly Gwalior

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With its delicately painted stock and distinctive barrel type with an enlarged breech end, this gun was likely manufactured in Rajasthan, in northern India. Intended for the hunt, such richly decorated firearms were made for an aristocratic clientele. A similar example appears in a portrait of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628–58) from around 1635, indicating that guns of this style remained in fashion for several centuries with very little change.

Matchlock Gun, Steel, iron, wood, ivory, gold, silver, copper alloy, pigment, Indian, Rajasthan, possibly Gwalior

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Matchlock Gun, Steel, iron, wood, ivory, gold, silver, copper alloy, pigment, Indian, Rajasthan, possibly Gwalior
Matchlock Gun, Steel, iron, wood, ivory, gold, silver, copper alloy, pigment, Indian, Rajasthan, possibly Gwalior
Matchlock Gun, Steel, iron, wood, ivory, gold, silver, copper alloy, pigment, Indian, Rajasthan, possibly Gwalior
Matchlock Gun, Steel, iron, wood, ivory, gold, silver, copper alloy, pigment, Indian, Rajasthan, possibly Gwalior
Matchlock Gun, Steel, iron, wood, ivory, gold, silver, copper alloy, pigment, Indian, Rajasthan, possibly Gwalior
Matchlock Gun, Steel, iron, wood, ivory, gold, silver, copper alloy, pigment, Indian, Rajasthan, possibly Gwalior

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