Description:

This elaborate example of a heavy musket, the weapon of the common soldier, is covered with gilt brass and mother-of-pearl inlay. The firing mechanism uses the more expensive wheellock, with its self-contained mechanical ignition, rather than a simple matchlock, fired with a match cord. It was formerly kept in the gun room of Castle Teteschen (Děčín) in what is now Czechia, together with a few others by the same workshop.

They were used by the barons Thun-Hohenstein for the sport of target shooting; such courtly competitions developed in emulation of shooting matches held by guilds and militias to practice their military skills.