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| Keywords: Indian - Primer - Walters 71418.jpg The powder flask also known as a priming flask was an essential firearm accessory and held the fine powder needed to make the gun fire Gunmakers in India during the Mughal era 1526-1858 specialized in carving ivory powder flasks with animal figures Often as these two examples the decoration consists of intertwined and composite creatures that seem to grow out of or attack one another One such menagerie on the right-hand flask includes a cheetah or lion chasing an antelope in the center and bucks antelopes lions birds a boar elephant and mongoose at the two ends Many of these animals were regularly hunted or used for hunts as with the elephant in Mughal India 18th-1st half 19th century late Mughal ivory set with amber and steel; ivory steel cm 7 22 5 3 4 accession number 71 418 2698 Demotte Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 place of origin India Walters Art Museum license Weapons in the Walters Art Museum Indian gunpowder flasks Mughal art in the Walters Art Museum Elephants in Islamic art | ||||
