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Title:Dagger
Date:1450–80
Culture:Burgundian
Medium:Steel, wood, brass
Dimensions:L. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm); W. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Wt. 7.6 oz. (215.5 g)
Classification:Daggers
Credit Line:Gift of George D. Pratt, 1925
Object Number:25.188.17
Baron Charles Alexander de Cosson, London (until 1891; sold, March 25, 1891, to Clements); John Clements, Liverpool (until d. 1906; his estate sale, Objects of Vertu from Various Sources and a Collection of Arms & Armour sold by order of the Trustees of John Clements, Esq, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, December 11, 1906, no. 126); Henry Griffith Keasbey, Eastbourne, Sussex, England (1906–1925; his sale, The Henry Griffith Keasbey Collection, American Art Galleries, New York, November 27–28, 1925, no. 208, sold, for $325, to Pratt); George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, Long Island, NY (1925; his gift to MMA).
New York. The Cloisters Museum & Gardens. "The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages," March 28–June 15, 1975, no. 92.
Dean, Bashford, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February the Sixth to April the Sixteenth. New York: Gilliss Press, 1911. p. 61, cat. no. 147, fig. XLII.
Laking, Guy Francis, Sir, Charles Alexander Cosson, and Francis Henry Cripps-Day. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. Vol. III. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920. pp. 7–8, fig. 742.
American Art Association. European Arms and Armor from VI to XVIII Century, Part II. New York: American Art Association, November 27–28, 1925. cat. no. 208, pl. XX.
Dean, Bashford. Catalogue of European Court Swords and Hunting Swords: Including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929. p. 94, no. 93, pl. XXXVI.
Dean, Bashford. Catalogue of European Daggers: Including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929. p. 94, cat. no. 93, pl. XXXVI.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages. New York: Dutton, 1975. p. 83, cat. no. 92.
Laking, Guy Francis, Charles Alexander Cosson, Francis Henry Cripps-Day, and Claude Blair. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Ken Trotman Ltd., 2000. pp. 7–8, fig. 742.
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