Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols, 1752–53, Paris, French, Paris, Steel, silver, gold, wood (walnut), whalebone, L. of each 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm); Wt. of each 36 oz. (1030 g), Firearms-Pistols-Flintlock, Pistols with side-by-side barrels became popular in England and France in the second half of the eighteenth century. This luxuriously decorated French pair exhibits the fashionable Rococo taste for asymmetry and whimsy in its elaborate parcel-gilt silver mounts and silver-wire inlay
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Pair, Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols, 1752–53, Paris, French, Steel, silver, gold, wood, walnut, whalebone, L, 14 3/8, 36.5 cm, Wt, 36 oz, 1030 g, Firearms-Pistols-Flintlock, Pistols, side, side barrels, popular, England, France, second half, eighteenth century, luxuriously decorated French, pair, exhibits, fashionable Rococo, taste, asymmetry, whimsy, elaborate parcel-gilt, mounts, silver-wire inlay
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