Steel priming flask with vignettes

An image of Priming flask/ Shot flask. Weapons. Unknown maker. Of flattened pear-shape with cylindrical screw-on stopper (A). Attached to the base of the stopper is a rod within a hollow tube, the top of which is pierced with two D-shaped holes. The sides are decorated with two circular vignettes of a lady and gentleman in 18th century dress; on one side they stand; on the other she sits on the ground and he stands behind her. The background and stopper are decorated with scrolling foliage. Steel whole, silver decoration, height, flask & stopper, 2.6 cm, length, flask & stopper, 9.8 cm, width, flask & stopper, 4.9 cm, 1700-1760. European.

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Priming flask/ Shot flask. Weapons. Unknown maker. Of flattened pear-shape with cylindrical screw-on stopper (A). Attached to the base of the stopper is a rod within a hollow tube, the top of which is pierced with two D-shaped holes. The sides are decorated with two circular vignettes of a lady and gentleman in 18th century dress; on one side they stand; on the other she sits on the ground and he stands behind her. The background and stopper are decorated with scrolling foliage. Steel whole, silver decoration, height, flask & stopper, 2.6 cm, length, flask & stopper, 9.8 cm, width, flask & stopper, 4.9 cm, 1700-1760. European.

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Accession Number: M.68 & A-1930
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 621 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 123.50kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 11/1

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