id:			95895
accession number:	1916.1589
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1589
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:14.585000

Seven-Flanged Mace, c. 1540–50. Italy (?), 16th century. Gilded russet steel; with chiseled foliate decoration; overall: 64.5 cm (25 3/8 in.); head: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1589

title:				Seven-Flanged Mace
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creation date:			c. 1540–50
creation date earliest:		1535
creation date latest:		1555
current location:		210A Armor Court
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Italy (?), 16th century
technique:	gilded russet steel; with chiseled foliate decoration
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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measurements: Overall: 64.5 cm (25 3/8 in.); Head: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)
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	description:	chisled foliate decoration
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Armor Court Reinstallation
	opening date:   1998-09-10T00:00:00
	<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1916
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1916-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour.</em> Vol. 2, <em>16th century. </em>[Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (35) 39
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour2_201602/page/n54

	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. 247, K9; Reproduced: Plate XLIX, K9
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n346

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. <em>Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor</em>. 2d ed., 1948.
	page number: 	Reproduction: p. 50
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n58

	Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	pp. 95, 168; cat. no. 122, p. 168
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	cat. no. 125, p. 188
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