Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols

Gunsmith François-Alexander Chasteau French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 375

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.

Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols, François-Alexander Chasteau (French, Paris, recorded 1741–84), Steel, silver, gold, wood (walnut), whalebone, French, Paris

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Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols, François-Alexander Chasteau (French, Paris, recorded 1741–84), Steel, silver, gold, wood (walnut), whalebone, French, Paris
Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols, François-Alexander Chasteau (French, Paris, recorded 1741–84), Steel, silver, gold, wood (walnut), whalebone, French, Paris
Pair of Double-Barreled Flintlock Pistols, François-Alexander Chasteau (French, Paris, recorded 1741–84), Steel, silver, gold, wood (walnut), whalebone, French, Paris

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