id:			95927
accession number:	1916.1646
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1646
updated:		2025-04-16 18:09:14.175000

Closed Sallet with Grotesque Face (Schembart visor), c. 1500. Germany, Nuremberg. Painted steel; overall: 27.3 x 25.7 x 22.2 cm (10 3/4 x 10 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1646

title:				Closed Sallet with Grotesque Face (Schembart visor)
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creation date:			c. 1500
creation date earliest:		1495
creation date latest:		1505
current location:		210A Armor Court
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Germany, Nuremberg
technique:	painted steel
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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measurements: Overall: 27.3 x 25.7 x 22.2 cm (10 3/4 x 10 1/8 x 8 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

	Thill; Vienna
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	Frank Gair Macomber, 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> 1900.
	page number: 	no. 524
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1

	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. 45, B12; Reproduced: Plate X, B12
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n62

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	cat. no. 52, p. 165
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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. 65, p. 185
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	Dobson, Chris. <em>Beaten Black and Blue: The Myth of the Medieval Knight in Shining Armour</em>. Sant'Albano Stura, Italy: Chris Dobson, 2023.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 222, fig. 255
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