{
"data": {
"id": 95935,
"accession_number": "1916.1659",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Officer's Plug Bayonette, c.1690. England, 17th century. Steel serrated blade, brass, and wood; overall: 46.6 cm (18 3/8 in.); blade: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); quillions: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); grip: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1659",
"current_location": "210B Firearms",
"title": "Officer's Plug Bayonette",
"creation_date": "c.1690",
"creation_date_earliest": 1685,
"creation_date_latest": 1695,
"artists_tags": [],
"culture": [
"England, 17th century"
],
"technique": "steel serrated blade, brass, and wood",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Medieval Art",
"collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
"type": "Arms and Armor",
"measurements": "Overall: 46.6 cm (18 3/8 in.); Blade: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); Quillions: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Grip: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"length": 0.466
},
"blade": {
"length": 0.302
},
"quillions": {
"width": 0.086
},
"grip": {
"length": 0.154
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 190103,
"title": "Armor Court Reinstallation",
"description": "Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).",
"opening_date": "1998-09-10T00:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": []
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "?-1916",
"sortorder": null
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1916-",
"sortorder": 2
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": "The owner's or maker's mark on this blade is unidentified.",
"description": "Used increasingly in warfare during the 1600s, the plug bayonet was inserted into the muzzle of a gun to make a weapon with a long shaft. This eventually made the use of pikemen in warfare obsolete as the new musketeer could now continue after having run out of shots.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60756074"
],
"internet_archive": []
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Catalogue of Arms and Armour. Vol. 4, 17th to 19th century and a few pieces of iron work. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (255) 282",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour4/page/n482"
},
{
"citation": "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. 228, I50",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n321"
},
{
"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
"page_number": "p. 104; cat. no. 172, p. 171",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 183, p. 191",
"url": null
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1659",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1659/1916.1659_web.jpg",
"width": "572",
"height": "900",
"filesize": "121534",
"filename": "1916.1659_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1659/1916.1659_print.jpg",
"width": "2159",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "419904",
"filename": "1916.1659_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1659/1916.1659_full.tif",
"width": "2980",
"height": "4692",
"filesize": "41969736",
"filename": "1916.1659_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"annotation": "",
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "567",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "236976"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "1301",
"height": "2048",
"filesize": "1379522"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "1301",
"height": "2048",
"filesize": "7996260"
}
},
{
"date_created": "2007-04-25T20:21:05",
"annotation": "",
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt1_web.jpg",
"width": "713",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "285678"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt1_print.jpg",
"width": "2715",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4474403"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt1_full.tif",
"width": "3992",
"height": "5000",
"filesize": "59904948"
}
},
{
"annotation": "",
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt2_web.jpg",
"width": "713",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "305950"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt2_print.jpg",
"width": "2715",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4583026"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt2_full.tif",
"width": "3992",
"height": "5000",
"filesize": "59900180"
}
},
{
"date_created": "2007-04-25T20:21:05",
"annotation": "",
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt3_web.jpg",
"width": "722",
"height": "900",
"filesize": ""
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt3_print.jpg",
"width": "2729",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": ""
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/alternate/1916.1659/1916.1659_alt3_full.tif",
"width": "4363",
"height": "5435",
"filesize": ""
}
}
],
"creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 95935,
"creators": [],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1916-04-10T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1685,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "c.1690",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:08:08.411000"
}
}