{"data": {"id": 95819, "accession_number": "1916.1506", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Hand-and-a-Half Sword, c. 1550. Germany, mid-16th century. Steel, blued pommel and quillions, leather grip; overall: 123.9 cm (48 3/4 in.); blade: 92.3 cm (36 5/16 in.); quillions: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.); grip: 30.5 cm (12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1506", "current_location": null, "title": "Hand-and-a-Half Sword", "creation_date": "c. 1550", "creation_date_earliest": 1545, "creation_date_latest": 1555, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Germany, mid-16th century"], "technique": "steel, blued pommel and quillions, leather grip", "support_materials": [], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor", "type": "Arms and Armor", "measurements": "Overall: 123.9 cm (48 3/4 in.); Blade: 92.3 cm (36 5/16 in.); Quillions: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.); Grip: 30.5 cm (12 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"length": 1.239, "length_inch": 48, "length_inch_fraction": 0.75}, "blade": {"length": 0.923, "length_inch": 36, "length_inch_fraction": 0.3125}, "quillions": {"width": 0.248, "width_inch": 9, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75}, "grip": {"width": 0.305, "width_inch": 12, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 190103, "title": "Armor Court Reinstallation", "description": "<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).", "opening_date": "1998-09-10T00:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "-1916", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1916-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "There are three unidentified marks on the fuller of this blade.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "A hand-and-a-half sword is a large sword with a double-edged blade and a long grip so it could accommodate both hands. It was also know as a bastard sword. It would primarily be used with one hand, but if desired, the second hand could be used to give extra weight to the blow.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79478040"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.", "page_number": "cat. #489", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up"}, {"citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 89, E12", "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n132"}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N<em>. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.", "page_number": "cat. no. 159, p. 170", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.", "page_number": "cat. no. 134, p. 189", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1506", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1506/1916.1506_web.jpg", "width": "561", "height": "900", "filesize": "110344", "filename": "1916.1506_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1506/1916.1506_print.jpg", "width": "2118", "height": "3400", "filesize": "596442", "filename": "1916.1506_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1506/1916.1506_full.tif", "width": "2832", "height": "4547", "filesize": "38653848", "filename": "1916.1506_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1506/1916.1506_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "556", "height": "893", "filesize": "234369"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1506/1916.1506_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "1276", "height": "2048", "filesize": "1415367"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1506/1916.1506_alt0_full.tif", "width": "1276", "height": "2048", "filesize": "7842660"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. 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