id:			95899
accession number:	1916.1599
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1599
updated:		2024-08-08 15:11:45.668000

Battle Axe, late 1500s. Italy, late 16th Century. Steel, inset with copper rosette; blade: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); head: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1599

title:				Battle Axe
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creation date:			late 1500s
creation date earliest:		1550
creation date latest:		1599
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Italy, late 16th Century
technique:	steel, inset with copper rosette
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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measurements: Blade: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); Head: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.)
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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

	Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848), Goodrich Court, Wales
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	Raol Richards, Rome, Italy
	date: -1890
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	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>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
	page number: 	cat. #535
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up

	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. 199, H60; Reproduced: Plate XLIII, H60
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n288

	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. 46
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n53

	Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	cat. no. 123, 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. 124, p. 188
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