id:			95914
accession number:	1916.1629
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1629
updated:		2025-02-08 22:22:11

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
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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
	<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. 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
	<i>Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence</i>. 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': '<em>Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor</em>, Manchester City Art Gallery, England (Closed August 2, 1897).', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': '<em>Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, </em>Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 6-April 16, 1911).', 'opening_date': '1911-02-06T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Arms and Armor, </em>Museum Fine Arts Boston, MA (Summer 1899)', 'opening_date': None}

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PROVENANCE

	Charles Alexander, Baron de Cosson (1843-1929), England
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	Raoul Richards, Rome, Italy
	date: ?-1890
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	S.J. Whawell, Esq.
	date: before 1897
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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

	Manchester City Art Gallery. <em>Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor.</em> [Manchester]: [Corporation of Manchester art gallery], 1897.
	page number: 	p. 74, no. 273
	url:		https://archive.org/details/TudorManchester

	<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. (98) 101
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour2_201602/page/n440

	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Bashford Dean. <em>Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor.</em> 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. <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. 105, E46; Reproduced: Plate XXVI, E46
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n160

	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. 38
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n46

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	p. 84; cat. no. 169, p. 171
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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. 153, p. 190
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	Foschi, Pier Francesco, and Nelda Damiano. <em>Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence</em>. 2023.
	page number: 	Cat. no. 20, pp. 128-130
	url:		

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