id: 96054 accession number: 1916.1789 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1789 updated: 2023-03-03 07:01:12.052000 Parade Spear, c. 1570–1600. Germany, Augsburg?, 16th century. Steel, etched; brass lugs; hexagonal wood haft with leather straps; woolen tassel; overall: 208.2 cm (81 15/16 in.); blade: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1789 title: Parade Spear title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1570–1600 creation date earliest: 1565 creation date latest: 1605 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: Germany, Augsburg?, 16th century technique: steel, etched; brass lugs; hexagonal wood haft with leather straps; woolen tassel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Arms & Armor type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 208.2 cm (81 15/16 in.); Blade: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Armor Court Reinstallation opening date: 1998-09-10T00:00:00 Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941) Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1916 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1916- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The Habsburg coat of arms, seen here, features a double-headed eagle. digital description: wall description: This weapon is etched with the imperial Habsburg arms on one face and the Burgundian stave cross of St. Andrew on the other. In the 1500s, parade spears of this type became part of the insignia of infantry and light cavalry officers in the imperial army. In 1548 Titian painted an equestrian portrait of Emperor Charles V holding such a spear. At his abdication in 1556, Charles split the Habsburg inheritance between his son, Philip II of Spain, who was awarded control of Burgundy, and his brother, Frederick, who received the imperial title and the family's central European lands. This spear probably belongs to this later period and its purpose was likely ceremonial. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of Arms and Armour. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900. page number: cat. no. 307 url: https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up 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. 193, H39; Reproduced: Plate XLII, H39 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n281 Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. page number: pp. 129, 167; cat. no. 109 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 113, p. 187 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1789/1916.1789_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1789/1916.1789_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1789/1916.1789_full.tif