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{
    "localId": "96045",
    "label": "Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "96045",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle)",
    "description": "This type of hunting gun owes its name to the town of Teschen in Silesia (now southern Poland) which, as early as 1580, was already associated with a particular type of gun. The precise date of the invention of the Tschinke is unknown, though a dated example of 1610 survives in the Imperial Armouries in Vienna.",
    "date": "c. 1630–50",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1782",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60754198"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1782/1916.1782_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1782/1916.1782_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 122.9 cm (48 3/8 in.); Butt: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Barrel: 94.9 cm (37 3/8 in.); Bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Poland, Silesia, 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.1782"
}

{
    "tec": "steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl",
    "tombstone": "Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle), c. 1630–50. Poland, Silesia, 17th century. Steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl; overall: 122.9 cm (48 3/8 in.); butt: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); barrel: 94.9 cm (37 3/8 in.); bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1782",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "didYouKnow": "At over four feet long, this rifle's scale is only outdone by the fine details of the gilding and inlaid precious materials. This weapon is known for the region in which it was made and popularized.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour. </em>[Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.",
            "page_number": "cat. #282",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 147-148, F12; Reproduced: Plate XXXV, F12",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n219"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. <em>Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor</em>. 2d ed., 1948.",
            "page_number": "Reproduction: p. 42",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n49"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Ar</em>t. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
            "page_number": "pp. 143, 174; cat. no. 221"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 228, p. 194"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1782",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:10:13.593000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1782/1916.1782_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 96045,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "med": "steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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