id: 95914
accession number: 1916.1629
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1629
updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:14.680000
Hanger (Hunting Sword), late 1600s. Jaspar Bongen the Younger (German, active late 1600s). Steel; gold and silver damascened hilt; overall: 73 cm (28 3/4 in.); blade: 57.7 cm (22 11/16 in.); quillions: 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1629
title: Hanger (Hunting Sword)
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series:
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creation date: late 1600s
creation date earliest: 1650
creation date latest: 1699
current location: 210A Armor Court
creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
copyright:
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culture: Hilt: Italy (?); Blade: Germany, Saxony, late 16th-17th Century
technique: steel; gold and silver damascened hilt
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Arms & Armor
type: Arms and Armor
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CREATORS
* Jaspar Bongen the Younger (German, active late 1600s) - makers mark
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measurements: Overall: 73 cm (28 3/4 in.); Blade: 57.7 cm (22 11/16 in.); Quillions: 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.)
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support materials:
description: damascened hilt
watermarks:
inscriptions:
inscription: "1553" (Presumed to be a commemorative date)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Armor Court Reinstallation
opening date: 1998-09-10T00:00:00
Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
title: Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence
opening date: 2022-01-29T05:00:00
Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence. Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (organizer) (January 29-April 24, 2022) https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/wealth-and-beauty-pier-francesco-foschi-and-painting-in-renaissance-florence/.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor, Manchester City Art Gallery, England (Closed August 2, 1897).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 6-April 16, 1911).', 'opening_date': '1911-02-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Arms and Armor, Museum Fine Arts Boston, MA (Summer 1899)', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Charles Alexander, Baron de Cosson (1843-1929), England
date:
footnotes:
citations:
Raoul Richards, Rome, Italy
date: ?-1890
footnotes:
citations:
S.J. Whawell, Esq.
date: before 1897
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citations:
Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1916
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citations:
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1916-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Manchester City Art Gallery. Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor. [Manchester]: [Corporation of Manchester art gallery], 1897.
page number: p. 74, no. 273
url: https://archive.org/details/TudorManchester
Catalogue of Arms and Armour. Vol. 2, 16th century. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (98) 101
url: https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour2_201602/page/n440
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Bashford Dean. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor. New York, February the sixth to April the sixteenth, MCMXI.: [Gilliss Press], 1911.
page number: p. 52, no. 120, pl. XXXVIII
url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/22640
Gilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.
page number: Mentioned: p. 105, E46; Reproduced: Plate XXVI, E46
url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n160
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor. 2d ed., 1948.
page number: Reproduction: p. 38
url: https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n46
Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
page number: p. 84; cat. no. 169, p. 171
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Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page number: cat. no. 153, p. 190
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Foschi, Pier Francesco, and Nelda Damiano. Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence. 2023.
page number: Cat. no. 20, pp. 128-130
url:
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IMAGES
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