DECORATIVE IRON POWDER FLASK

DECORATIVE IRON POWDER FLASK
1850-70 / France/Italy

A bottle-shaped flask made of iron and decorated with applied brass fittings. The frontpiece is a depiction of what we believe to be Minerva (?) surrounded with leaves. On the backside is the coat of arms of the Medici family with puttis (cherubs) on the bottom.

The flask does not have any locking mechanism or powder measuring device, which suggests that it was most likely made for decorative use or for cased set of guns.

Weight: 126 g

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