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    "localId": "96174",
    "label": "Powder Flask",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "96174",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Powder Flask",
    "description": "Powder flasks are small, portable containers designed to hold gunpowder. From the 1400s to the 1800s, powder flasks were indispensable for charging and priming firearms of all types. Without powder flasks firearms were of little use to their owners. Many highly decorated flasks rank as works of art.",
    "date": "c. 1680",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1887",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1887/1916.1887_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); Overall: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "German, Swabian, Gmünd, 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.1887"
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{
    "tec": "boxwood with design of stag and hounds carved in high relief; steel funnel, mounts, springcatch",
    "tombstone": "Powder Flask, c. 1680. Johann Michael Maucher (German, 1645–1701). Boxwood with design of stag and hounds carved in high relief; steel funnel, mounts, springcatch; diameter: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); overall: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1887",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "didYouKnow": "Johann Michael Maucher was the most famous member of a Schwabian family of ivory, wood, and amber carvers.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.",
            "page_number": "cat: #583",
            "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. 152, F24",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n224"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
            "page_number": "p. 148; cat. no. 248, p. 176"
        },
        {
            "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. 257, p. 195"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1887",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:10:43.782000",
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    "dept": "Medieval Art",
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    ],
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