About the Artwork
Parrying Dagger for the Left Hand
mid-17th century
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Italian
Italian
Steel
Overall: 22 × 11 1/2 × 3 inches (55.9 × 29.2 × 7.6 cm) Overall (blade): 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Arms and Armor
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb
56.121
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Markings
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Maker's mark, on blade: [unidentified]
Provenance
Baron Frédéric Spitzer (Paris, France)
June 10-14, 1895, sold by (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France) lot 286
Baron Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild (Vienna, Austria)
(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA)
(Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, York, Pennsylvania, USA)
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb
1956-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue des Armes et Armures Faisant Partie de la Collection Spitzer. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, June 10-15, 1895, p. 31, no. 286.
Laking, Guy Francis, Charles A. de Cosson, and Francis Henry Cripps-Day. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, Vol. IV. London, 1921, p. 94.
Cordera, Paola. La Fabbrica del Rinascimento: Frédéric Spitzer mercante d’arte e collzionista nell'Europa delle nuove Nazioni. Bologna, 2014, p. 388.
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Italian, Parrying Dagger for the Left Hand, mid-17th century, steel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb, 56.121.
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