Pair of Flintlock Pistols
Several generations of the Kuchenreuter family were highly successful gunsmiths whose patrons included the King of Bohemia, Napoleon, and the Tsar of Russia. Johann Andreas and his father Johann Jacob were among the most famous members of this gun-making dynasty.
Credit: Purchase, Bashford Dean Bequest, 1969
c. 1760-70
Steel, wood, bronze, gold, silver, horn
42.6cm
69.295.1,.2
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