id: 96243 accession number: 1916.1953 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1953 updated: 2023-08-23 18:11:16.845000 Pricked Spur, 1200s. Spain, 13th century. Steel; overall: 19 x 8.4 cm (7 1/2 x 3 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1953 title: Pricked Spur title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1299 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: Spain, 13th century technique: steel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Arms & Armor type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 19 x 8.4 cm (7 1/2 x 3 5/16 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). title: The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible opening date: 2002-10-27T00:00:00 The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 27-December 29, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Thill; Vienna date: footnotes: citations: Frank Gair Macomber; 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: Before they were made of metal, the earliest spurs were probably thorns that were attached to the back of the heel. digital description: wall description: The spur was an essential part of the knight's equipment. Fastened to his heels by means of straps and buckles, it was used to prod a horse into action. This example represents the oldest type recorded, the "pricked" spur, so-called because its neck terminated in a spike. The pricked spur was replaced during the Middle Ages by the "rowel" spur, with a rotating spiked wheel. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of Arms and Armour. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900. page number: cat. #527 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. 233, J7 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n329 Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. page number: cat. no. 74, p. 166. url: Louis, William Noel, and Daniel H. Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002. page number: pp. 84, 188, fig. 1, cat. no. 30 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 79, p. 186 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1953/1916.1953_full.tif