{"data": {"id": 96243, "accession_number": "1916.1953", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Pricked Spur, 1200s. Spain. Steel; overall: 19 x 8.4 cm (7 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1953", "current_location": "210A Armor Court", "title": "Pricked Spur", "creation_date": "1200s", "creation_date_earliest": 1200, "creation_date_latest": 1299, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Spain"], "technique": "steel", "support_materials": [], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor", "type": "Arms and Armor", "measurements": "Overall: 19 x 8.4 cm (7 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.19, "height_inch": 7, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.084, "width_inch": 3, "width_inch_fraction": 0.3125}}, "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"}, {"id": 211267, "title": "The Book of Kings:  Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible", "description": "<i>The Book of Kings:  Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible</i>. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 27-December 29, 2002).", "opening_date": "2002-10-27T00:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Thill; Vienna", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": null}, {"description": "Frank Gair Macomber; Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1916", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1916-", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Before they were made of metal, the earliest spurs were probably thorns that were attached to the back of the heel.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The spur was an essential part of the knight's equipment. Fastened to his heels by means of straps and buckles, it was used to prod a horse into action. This example represents the oldest type recorded, the \"pricked\" spur, so-called because its neck terminated in a spike. The pricked spur was replaced during the Middle Ages by the \"rowel\" spur, with a rotating spiked wheel.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60778174"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour.</em> [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.", "page_number": "cat. #527", "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. 233, J7", "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n329"}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.", "page_number": "cat. no. 74, p. 166.", "url": null}, {"citation": "Louis, William Noel, and Daniel H. Weiss. <em>The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible</em>. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002.", "page_number": "pp. 84, 188, fig. 1, cat. no. 30", "url": null}, {"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. 79, p. 186", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1953", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "494", "filesize": "126242", "filename": "1916.1953_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "1865", "filesize": "783542", "filename": "1916.1953_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_full.tif", "width": "4941", "height": "2710", "filesize": "40194472", "filename": "1916.1953_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "693", "filesize": "546722"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2048", "height": "1123", "filesize": "1480057"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_alt0_full.tif", "width": "2048", "height": "1123", "filesize": "6902140"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. 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