Saxon Sword (Reitschwert)

ca. 1580

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Great Hall, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Saxon Sword (Reitschwert)

Artwork Date ca. 1580

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. German

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Steel, silver, wood, leather

Dimensions Overall: 47 × 11 3/4 × 5 1/2 inches (119.4 × 29.8 × 14 cm) Overall (Length of Blade): 37 inches (94 cm) Overall (Scabbard): 37 1/2 × 3 × 3/4 inches (95.3 × 7.6 × 1.9 cm)

Classification Arms and Armor

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 53.215

Markings

Inscriptions Inscription, engraved on blade: WA

Marks Collector's mark, on sword: OS/SO. Marks, on scabbard, punched six times: A [or A ?] [possibly scabbard-maker's mark] Marks, on scabbard, on silver chape, at the top on the reverse: D [and the goldsmith's mark] Wolf Paller

Provenance

until at leat May 11, 1927, (Cyril Andrade, London, England).
William Randolph Hearst;
by 1951, William Randolph Hearst Foundation;
1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Andrade, C. Catalogue and Photographs of a Collection of Arms and Armour in the Possession of Messrs Cyril Andrade Ltd. Part 5. London, 1927, no. 53; p. 9 (ill.).

Schedelmann, H. "Konrad Fecit, The Story of the Remarkable Forger." Connoisseur 122, no. 509 (September 1948): pp. 8-13, 55.

Schedelmann, H. "Konrad Fecit, The Story of the Remarkable Forger." Connoisseur 122 (December 1948): pp. 104-109

Robinson, F.W. "A Gift of Arms and Armor from the Collection of William Randolph Hearst." Bulletin of the DIA 33, no. 1 (1953-1954): pp. 1-5.

Schedelmann, H. "Konrad Fecit." Waffen-und Kostümkunde 13, no. 1 (1971): pp. 52-61.

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German, Saxon Sword (Reitschwert), ca. 1580, steel, silver, wood, leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.215.