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The veneering and inlay of musket-stocks with fine woods, ivory and gold, silver or brass wire was part of a woodworking tradition that developed early in the Ottoman empire; the Qur'an chest made in 911 AH (1505–1506) for the mosque of Bayezid II in Istanbul, which was inaugurated in 1505, bears the signature of such an inlayer, Ahmed ibn Hasan. In his account of Bitlis in 1655–1656, Evliya Çelebi gives a list of muskets by the most reputed makers allegedly in the collection of Abdal Khan, the ruler of that principality. The stocks were offine woods – walnut, maple, hornbeam – though evidently undecorated, and were often sold separately. The 1640 Istanbul fixed price register (narh defter) shows conclusively that even the most costly firearms were available on the market in Istanbul.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Flintlock Gun
Date
18th C
Medium
wood, ivory or bone, steel, brass, copper, gold, mother-of-pearl & coloured glass
Accession number
274
Work type
Sculpture
