id: 97050 accession number: 1916.704 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.704 updated: 2023-08-23 18:15:43.996000 Parade Sword, c. 1500–1525. Italy, Ferrara, early 16th Century. Steel, etched and gilded; overall: 101.9 cm (40 1/8 in.); blade: 85.4 cm (33 5/8 in.); quillions: 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.); grip: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.704 title: Parade Sword title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500–1525 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1530 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: Italy, Ferrara, early 16th Century technique: steel, etched and gilded department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Arms & Armor type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 101.9 cm (40 1/8 in.); Blade: 85.4 cm (33 5/8 in.); Quillions: 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.); Grip: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Ercole dei Fideli translation: remark: --- 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 Richard Zschille (1847-1903), Leipzig, Germany date: footnotes: citations: 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: Ercole dei Fedeli was an Italian goldsmith and master sword engraver; his name appears on this blade. digital description: This parade sword has a steel blade with etched and gilded bands of decoration. The decoration includes allegorical figures such as dancing satyrs and nymphs, amorini or cupids, and triumphs. The pommel, the rounded knob on the end of the handle, is flat and shaped like a shield; a raised rosette further embellishes it. The quillons or two transverse projecting members forming the cross guard, are flattened and drooping toward the blade. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of Arms and Armour. Vol. 2, 16th century. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915]. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (95) 98 url: https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour2_201602/page/n421 Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin. R. Zschille’sche waffensammlung. Mar 21-22, 1900. page number: Mentioned: p. 11, lot 61; Reproduced: lot 61 url: https://archive.org/details/Zschille/page/n17 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. 99, E35; Reproduced: Plate XXIII, E35 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n153 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor. 2d ed., 1948. page number: Reproduction: p. 37 url: https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n43 Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. page number: cat. no. 135, p. 169 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 131, p. 188 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.704/1916.704_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.704/1916.704_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.704/1916.704_full.tif