Miquelet Rifle

Turkish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 379

The miquelet is an early and sturdy form of flintlock popular throughout the Ottoman Empire from the seventeenth into the early twentieth century. Several elaborately decorated guns very similar to this example are still preserved in Istanbul, possibly made for the Ottoman Imperial guard.

Miquelet Rifle, Steel, wood, ivory, copper alloys, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, glass paste, Turkish

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Miquelet Rifle, Steel, wood, ivory, copper alloys, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, glass paste, Turkish
Miquelet Rifle, Steel, wood, ivory, copper alloys, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, glass paste, Turkish
Miquelet Rifle, Steel, wood, ivory, copper alloys, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, glass paste, Turkish
Miquelet Rifle, Steel, wood, ivory, copper alloys, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, glass paste, Turkish
Miquelet Rifle, Steel, wood, ivory, copper alloys, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, glass paste, Turkish

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