id: 147959 accession number: 1974.57 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.57 updated: 2025-02-09 03:47:05.053000 Small Sword, c. 1780. France, Paris (?), 18th century. Forged steel blade; partially gilt and russet steel hilt; steel wire, leather bands, wood core; overall: 103.5 cm (40 3/4 in.); blade: 86.1 cm (33 7/8 in.); guard: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Bascom Little Estate 1974.57 title: Small Sword title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1780 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1785 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: Gift from the Bascom Little Estate copyright: --- culture: France, Paris (?), 18th century technique: forged steel blade; partially gilt and russet steel hilt; steel wire, leather bands, wood core department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Arms & Armor type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 103.5 cm (40 3/4 in.); Blade: 86.1 cm (33 7/8 in.); Guard: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1974 opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975). title: Armor Court Reinstallation opening date: 1998-09-10T00:00:00 Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Bascom Little Estate, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1974 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1974- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (1975). page number: p. 98, cat. no. 42 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580 Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. page number: pp. 121, 172; cat. no. 199 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 200, p. 192. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.57/1974.57_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.57/1974.57_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.57/1974.57_full.tif