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Firearm

Firearm

  • Place of origin:

    Lahore, Pakistan (made)

  • Date:

    19th century (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Forged crucible steel decorated with gold kuftkari and mounted on red wood with ivory and chased silver mounts

  • Credit Line:

    Transferred from the India Museum in 1879

  • Museum number:

    2593(IS)

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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This matchlock musket has a watered steel barrel overlaid with gold. Its stock is of carved wood and ivory with engraved silver mounts. Probably dating from the early 19th century, it was acquired as being from Lahore by the Indian Museum at an unspecified date, and was transferred to the South Kensington Museum, later renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1879. Lahore was a renowned centre of the production of arms and armour in the Mughal period, and this continued when Ranjit Singh was proclaimed the first Sikh Maharaja of the Panjab in Lahore in 1801, from where he ruled until his death in 1839.

Physical description

Matchlock gun with a damascus steel barrel decorated at either end with gold, mounted on a slender, straight red wood stock with an ivory butt and chased silver sideplates.

Place of Origin

Lahore, Pakistan (made)

Date

19th century (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Forged crucible steel decorated with gold kuftkari and mounted on red wood with ivory and chased silver mounts

Dimensions

Length: 68 in Taken from Egerton

Descriptive line

Matchlock gun with a watered steel barrel decorated with gold overlay, mounted on a slender red wood stock with ivory and chased silver mounts, Lahore, 19th century.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Lord Egerton of Tatton, Indian and Oriental Armour, London, 1896, p. 133, Cat. No. 672

Production Note

Transferred from the India Museum to South Kensington Museum in 1879

Categories

Arms & Armour; Firearms

Collection code

SSEA

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