{"data": {"id": 97044, "accession_number": "1916.699", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Left-Handed Dagger or \"Main Gauche\", c. 1650. Spain or Italy, Naples. Steel, pierced and chiseled; overall: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.); blade: 44.4 cm (17 1/2 in.); quillions: 25.4 cm (10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.699", "current_location": null, "title": "Left-Handed Dagger or \"Main Gauche\"", "creation_date": "c. 1650", "creation_date_earliest": 1645, "creation_date_latest": 1655, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Spain or Italy, Naples"], "technique": "steel, pierced and chiseled", "support_materials": [{"description": "pierced and chiseled", "watermarks": []}], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor", "type": "Arms and Armor", "measurements": "Overall: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.); Blade: 44.4 cm (17 1/2 in.); Quillions: 25.4 cm (10 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.572, "height_inch": 22, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5}, "blade": {"length": 0.444, "length_inch": 17, "length_inch_fraction": 0.5}, "quillions": {"width": 0.254, "width_inch": 10, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 311898, "title": "35th Anniversary Exhibition", "description": "<i>35th Anniversary Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).", "opening_date": "1951-06-20T04:00:00"}, {"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": "Charles Alexander, Baron de Casson (1843-1929)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"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": "The main-gauche (French for \"left hand\") was used mainly to assist in defense by parrying enemy thrusts, while the dominant hand wielded a rapier.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "For parrying, rapiers were often made with accompanying daggers as a matched set, although the rapier shown here (1916.1810) does not originally belong to this dagger. Daggers such as this one have been misleadingly called \"left-handed daggers\" even though they could be held in either hand. The guard is richly decorated with chiseled and pierced arabesques, an ornamental design consisting of intertwined flowing lines.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60760638"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1916.699-left-handed-dagger-o"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.", "page_number": "cat. no. 427.", "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. 225-226, I44; Reproduced: Plate XLVI, I44", "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n320"}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.", "page_number": "pp. 115, 169; cat. no. 131", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. 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