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Flintlock pistol
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Flintlock pistol

de Vendt · 1690 - 1700 · blocked; relief (sculpture technique); cutting; drawn thread work; engraving; drijven; iron (metal); wood (plant material); silver (metal); horn (animal material)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

The lock is simply engraved with leafy vines, fantastic animals, and a signature. A rib runs over the barrel almost to the breech; the rib and the rear of the barrel are engraved, and the rib is stamped with the Utrecht mark and underneath with a mark resembling an arrow; engraved with the same signature as the lock; the barrel's lock is pivoting. The front of the stock is fitted with a cowhorn cap; the stock is carved with symmetrical foliage. The silver furniture consists of two ramrod pipes of unequal length, a screwplate consisting of symmetrical leafy vines extending into fantastic animals on either side of a grotesque mask, a trigger guard chased with a Classical warrior, a thumbplate consisting of an unworked oval shield framed by openwork leafy vines with a grotesque mask below and above and a crown on top, and a relief-carved butt plate with the mask of a bearded man; the ramrod is fitted with a cowhorn cap.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineVuursteenpistool. 1690 - 1700. de Vendt. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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