Dagger
42-30-186
From: Spain | Toledo
Curatorial Section: Historic
Object Number | 42-30-186 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Spanish |
Provenience | Spain | Toledo |
Date Made | 1841 CE |
Section | Historic |
Materials | Steel |
Description | Main Gauche = right handed dagger. Long, narrow, pointed steel blade, groove at each end near guard, inscribed; "Toledo 1841". Wide, straight quillons with twisted ends; below the quillons a rectangular section ornamented with human face and with two short pendent strips, parallel to the blade. From the quillons to the top of the grip is a curved guard with a disc in its center bearing a helmeted head. The section outside of the disc being openwork in a pattern of devils, animals, flowers and a human mask. |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Morgan Wing on behalf of the Estate of Florence C. Whitney, 1942 |
Other Number | 173 - Collector Number |
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