Flintlock Gun

De Lacollombe

ca. 1730–40 · Steel, silver, wood (walnut) · Arms and Armor

Though unsigned, this beautifully crafted hunting gun appears to have been made by a German craftsman copying designs from firearms pattern books published in Paris in the early to mid-eighteenth century.

Artist

De Lacollombe

Date

ca. 1730–40

Medium

Steel, silver, wood (walnut)

Culture

German

Department

Arms and Armor

Credit line

Purchase, Bashford Dean Bequest, James Elwood Jones Jr. Gift, and Rogers and Fletcher Funds, 1974