id:			96045
accession number:	1916.1782
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1782
updated:		2023-08-23 18:09:59.551000

Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle), c. 1630–50. Poland, Silesia, 17th century. Steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl; overall: 122.9 cm (48 3/8 in.); butt: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); barrel: 94.9 cm (37 3/8 in.); bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1782

title:				Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle)
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creation date:			c. 1630–50
creation date earliest:		1630
creation date latest:		1650
current location:		210A Armor Court
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Poland, Silesia, 17th century
technique:	steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 122.9 cm (48 3/8 in.); Butt: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Barrel: 94.9 cm (37 3/8 in.); Bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Armor Court Reinstallation
	opening date:   1998-09-10T00:00:00
	<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Hollingworth Magniac (1786-1867), Bedfordshire, England
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	Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -1916
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1916-
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fun fact:
At over four feet long, this rifle's scale is only outdone by the fine details of the gilding and inlaid precious materials. This weapon is known for the region in which it was made and popularized.

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wall description:
This type of hunting gun owes its name to the town of Teschen in Silesia (now southern Poland) which, as early as 1580, was already associated with a particular type of gun. The precise date of the invention of the Tschinke is unknown, though a dated example of 1610 survives in the Imperial Armouries in Vienna.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour. </em>[Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
	page number: 	cat. #282
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up

	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. 147-148, F12; Reproduced: Plate XXXV, F12
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n219

	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. 42
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n49

	Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Ar</em>t. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	pp. 143, 174; cat. no. 221
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	cat. no. 228, p. 194
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