Sujet
Powder horn, 1600s-1700s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Powder horn, 1600s-1700s. Like the firearms themselves, powder horns were made as courtly accessories to be worn as objects of beauty. Most Mughal nobles also served as military commanders, and accouterments of war would be worn as part of their formal attire. For this reason, artisans used precious materials such as white jade, which in this example has been carved with leaf and petal patterns, its natural black inclusions treated as ornament. Pressing down on the simple mechanism opens the hollow inner chamber from which small amounts of gunpowder were administered into the pan of a matchlock musket.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G00_471
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
73,0Mo (3,7Mo) / 52,3cm x 34,9cm / 6183 x 4124 (300dpi)