id:			97044
accession number:	1916.699
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.699
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:19.398000

Left-Handed Dagger or "Main Gauche", c. 1650. Spain  (?) or Italy, (Neapolitan?), 17th century. Steel, pierced and chiseled; overall: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.); blade: 44.4 cm (17 1/2 in.); quillions: 25.4 cm (10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.699

title:				Left-Handed Dagger or "Main Gauche"
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creation date:			c. 1650
creation date earliest:		1645
creation date latest:		1655
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Spain  (?) or Italy, (Neapolitan?), 17th century
technique:	steel, pierced and chiseled
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.); Blade: 44.4 cm (17 1/2 in.); Quillions: 25.4 cm (10 in.)
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	description:	pierced and chiseled
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		35th Anniversary Exhibition
	opening date:   1951-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>35th Anniversary Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

	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

	Charles Alexander, Baron de Casson (1843-1929)
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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>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
	page number: 	cat. no. 427.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up

	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. 225-226, I44; Reproduced: Plate XLVI, I44
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n320

	Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	pp. 115, 169; cat. no. 131
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 38 no. 07, September
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: cover
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-07

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	cat. no. 159, p. 190
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