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Sword
This piece is undecorated. The crossguard is restored. The grip would have been padded.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Thuringia, Germany, 1895 [said to have been found in a river bed] [mode of deposition unknown]; Spiller, London, January 30, 1901, no. 128; Harding [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Germany
(Place of Origin)
Italy (Place of Origin)
Measurements
40 1/4 in. (102.2 cm) (l.)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1917
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.497
