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Powder Flask
Johann Michael Maucherc. 1680
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Powder flasks are small, portable containers designed to hold gunpowder. From the 1400s to the 1800s, powder flasks were indispensable for charging and priming firearms of all types. Without powder flasks firearms were of little use to their owners. Many highly decorated flasks rank as works of art.
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- Title: Powder Flask
- Creator: Johann Michael Maucher (German, 1645–1701)
- Date Created: c. 1680
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); Overall: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Arms and Armor
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1887
- Medium: boxwood with design of stag and hounds carved in high relief; steel funnel, mounts, springcatch
- Fun Fact: Johann Michael Maucher was the most famous member of a Schwabian family of ivory, wood, and amber carvers.
- Department: Medieval Art
- Culture: German, Swabian, Gmünd, 17th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
- Collection: MED - Arms & Armor
- Accession Number: 1916.1887
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