Powder Horn
A curved cow horn powder flask with a dark metal cap at its narrow end. Its pale surface is covered with scratched and engraved designs, including small buildings, ships and figures, worn by age across its body.
Look closer: A small engraved ship sits among the scratched designs along the middle of the horn.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Horn (cow), lead
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 4000 × 2250 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1800).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Collection of J. H. Grenville Gilbert, of Ware, Massachusetts, Gift of Mrs. Gilbert, 1937