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        "share_license_status": "CC0",
        "tombstone": "Flintlock Pistol, c. 1670. Italy, Brescia, 17th century. Chiseled steel and walnut stock; overall: 45.1 cm (17 3/4 in.); barrel: 27.6 cm (10 7/8 in.); bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.52.2",
        "current_location": "210C Firearms",
        "title": "Flintlock Pistol",
        "creation_date": "c. 1670",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1665,
        "creation_date_latest": 1675,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Italy, Brescia, 17th century"
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        "technique": "chiseled steel and walnut stock",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Medieval Art",
        "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
        "type": "Arms and Armor",
        "measurements": "Overall: 45.1 cm (17 3/4 in.); Barrel: 27.6 cm (10 7/8 in.); Bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "length": 0.451,
                "length_inch": 17,
                "length_inch_fraction": 0.75
            },
            "barrel": {
                "length": 0.276,
                "length_inch": 10,
                "length_inch_fraction": 0.875
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        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 190103,
                    "title": "Armor Court Reinstallation",
                    "description": "<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).",
                    "opening_date": "1998-09-10T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "-1916",
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            },
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1916-",
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        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "1916.53"
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        "did_you_know": "This type of pistol fired only once before needing to be reloaded, so they were often produced in matched pairs.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "The chiseling of gun ornament is a task comparable to sculpture on a miniature scale, carried out in an extremely hard material. Since this was usually beyond the skill of most gunsmiths, it was not uncommon for such work to be contracted out as occured here.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60779624"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "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. (262) 289",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour4/page/n525"
            },
            {
                "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": "Mentioned: p. 148, F14",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n220"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
                "page_number": "p. 173, cat. no. 217",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
                "page_number": "p. 193, cat. no. 216",
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            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.52.2",
        "images": {},
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        "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
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        "accession_date": "1916-04-10T00:00:00",
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        "date_text": "c. 1670",
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        "cover_accession_number": "1916.52",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 05:12:55.568000"
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