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Source Description
Luxury powder flasks served as highly visible badges of ranks. Many highly decorated flasks, like this example, embody all the allure and characteristics of a work of art. This flask depicts an ancient Greek story in which the youthful Paris must reward the most beautiful woman in the world with a golden apple.
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Document identity
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97021
label
Powder Flask
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object
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97021
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object
title
Powder Flask
description
Luxury powder flasks served as highly visible badges of ranks. Many highly decorated flasks, like this example, embody all the allure and characteristics of a work of art. This flask depicts an ancient Greek story in which the youthful Paris must reward the most beautiful woman in the world with a golden apple.
date
c. 1590
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60778334
genreSpecific
Arms and Armor
imageCount
1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 19.4 x 12.7 cm (7 5/8 x 5 in.)
cul
Italy, 16th century
accession
1916.666
Source extras
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gilt brass over fabric covered wood
tombstone
Powder Flask, c. 1590. Italy, 16th century. Gilt brass over fabric covered wood; overall: 19.4 x 12.7 cm (7 5/8 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.666
collection
MED - Arms & Armor
didYouKnow
This powder flask depicts a mythological scene that precipitated the Trojan War. Here we see the Trojan prince Paris giving a golden apple to Aphrodite, the goddess who reciprocates by offering him the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta.
citations
citation
<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour.</em> [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
page_number
cat. #335
citation
Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.
page_number
Mention: p. 155, F36
citation
Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
page_number
p. 175, cat. no. 248
citation
Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page_number
p. 195, cat. no. 250
creditline
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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2026-05-29 05:13:32.648000
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97021
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Medieval Art
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MED - Arms & Armor
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gilt brass over fabric covered wood
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