id:			95900
accession number:	1916.1600
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1600
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:14.612000

Sword, 1400s. Germany (?), 15th century. Steel; wood and leather grip; overall: 104.2 cm (41 in.); blade: 87.3 cm (34 3/8 in.); quillions: 20.3 cm (8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1600

title:				Sword
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creation date:			1400s
creation date earliest:		1400
creation date latest:		1499
current location:		210A Armor Court
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Germany (?), 15th century
technique:	steel; wood and leather grip
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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measurements: Overall: 104.2 cm (41 in.); Blade: 87.3 cm (34 3/8 in.); Quillions: 20.3 cm (8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Gothic Art 1360-1440
	opening date:   1963-08-06T04:00:00
	<i>Gothic Art 1360-1440</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).

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

	title:		The Book of Kings:  Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible
	opening date:   2002-10-27T00:00:00
	<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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Franz Thill (1830-1903), Vienna, Austria
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	Frank Gair Macomber, Boston (1849-1941), 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

	Catalogue of Arms and Armour. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
	page number: 	cat. no. 559
	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. 85, E2; Reproduced: Plate XIX, E2
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n124

	"Sword." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11</em>, no. 3 (March 1924): 51-70
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 62-63; Reproduced: P. 65
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	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. 36
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n43

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	cat. no. 129, p. 188
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	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: 	cat. no. 28, p. 93, 187, fig. 7
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	Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	p. 110, 170, cat. no. 163
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