Jeweled Gun of Sultan Mahmud I

Gun: 1732/33; Miquelet lock: 1861/62 (Ottoman)

139.7 cm 24.5 cm 7 cm

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Made for Ottoman sultan Mahmud I (r. 1730-1754), this bejeweled gun conceals compartments for a dazzlingly adorned dagger and set of writing instruments. To get to them, one opens the hinged door bearing the diamond-encrusted insignia or tuğra of Mahmud I and the date AH 1145...

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Robert S. Pardo, Istanbul; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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