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{
    "localId": "97029",
    "label": "Pair of Flintlock Pistols",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "97029",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pair of Flintlock Pistols",
    "date": "c. 1690–1700",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.679",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60779182"
    ],
    "creators": [
        10606,
        10603
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.); Barrel: 30.9 cm (12 3/16 in.); Bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Brescia, late 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.679"
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    "tec": "steel, chiseled steel with walnut stock",
    "tombstone": "Pair of Flintlock Pistols, c. 1690–1700. Gio Borgognone (Italian), Lazarino Cominazzo (Italian). Steel, chiseled steel with walnut stock; overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.); barrel: 30.9 cm (12 3/16 in.); bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.679",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "barrel signed: Lazarino Cominazzo; lockplates signed: Gio Borgognone in Bresia"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "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: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
            "page_number": "Mention: p. 148-149, F15; Reproduced: Plate XXXIV, F15",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n220"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. Vol. 4, <em>17th to 19th century and a few pieces of iron work</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (264) 291",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour4/page/n537"
        },
        {
            "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. 41",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n47"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 174, cat. no. 219"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 193, cat. no. 217"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.679",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:13:35.395000",
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    "sourceId": 97029,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
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    "med": "steel, chiseled steel with walnut stock",
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        "male"
    ],
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    "image_url": null
}

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