Crossbow Bolt Mounted in a Fan

Description A bolt is a missile-like object, similar to an arrow but used with a crossbow. It consists of a stout wooden shaft with a conical or pyramidal metal head; leather or wooden vanes are fitted on the end of the shaft to steady the bolt's flight.

Provenance Gimbel, Berlin, 1904 [no. 905]; Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 20, 1924, no. 270; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924