Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle)
Unknown Artist
c. 1630–50
Medium
steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl
Dimensions
l. 122.9 cm · butt: w. 9.6 cm
Classification
Arms and Armor
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
Accession Number
1916.1782
About this artwork
This type of hunting gun owes its name to the town of Teschen in Silesia (now southern Poland) which, as early as 1580, was already associated with a particular type of gun. The precise date of the invention of the Tschinke is unknown, though a dated example of 1610 survives in the Imperial Armouries in Vienna.