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Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols

1752–53
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 375
Pistols with side-by-side barrels became popular in England and France in the second half of the eighteenth century. This luxuriously decorated French pair exhibits the fashionable Rococo taste for asymmetry and whimsy in its elaborate parcel-gilt silver mounts and silver-wire inlay.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols
  • Gunsmith: François-Alexander Chasteau (French, Paris, recorded 1741–84)
  • Date: 1752–53
  • Geography: Paris
  • Culture: French, Paris
  • Medium: Steel, silver, gold, wood (walnut), whalebone
  • Dimensions: L. of each 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm); Wt. of each 36 oz. (1030 g)
  • Classification: Firearms-Pistols-Flintlock
  • Credit Line: Gift of Walter A. Eberstadt, 2002
  • Object Number: 2002.521.1a, b, .2a, b
  • Curatorial Department: Arms and Armor

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