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    "localId": "104796",
    "label": "Hauberk",
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    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "104796",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Hauberk",
    "description": "Mail armor was the predominant form of metal body defense for European knights until about 1350. The term derives from the Old French word <em>maille</em> (mesh), implying a protective textile. Each mail garment was constructed of small linked metal rings and \"woven\" for a specific part of the body. Mail for the torso is a hauberk and typically reached mid-thigh.",
    "date": "c. 1400–1450",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1120",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60779267"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1120/1923.1120_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.); Sleeves: 43.2 cm (17 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany (?)"
    ],
    "accession": "1923.112"
}

{
    "tec": "steel and brass rings, riveted with modern buckles and straps",
    "tombstone": "Hauberk, c. 1400–1450. Germany (?). Steel and brass rings, riveted with modern buckles and straps; overall: 76.2 cm (30 in.); sleeves: 43.2 cm (17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1923.1120",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 104709,
            "description": "Barbute (from the Venetian Garrison at Chalcis), c. 1350–1420. North Italy, 14th-15th century. Iron; overall: 29 x 21 x 25 cm (11 7/16 x 8 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.); sleeves: 43.2 cm (17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1923.1065"
        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1923.1065, a"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Mail was expensive to make and generally only available to warriors of noble birth unless it could be obtained as war booty.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "American Art Association.<em> Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Arms and Armor, Stained Glass, Coffrets and Furniture, Authentic Specimens, in Nearly All Instances European. </em>New York: American Art Association, 1923.",
            "page_number": "lot 246"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gibson, Katharine. <em>The Goldsmith of Florence; A Book of Great Craftsmen.</em> New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929.",
            "page_number": "p. 53"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 21",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n28"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>A Missal for a King</em>. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1963.",
            "page_number": "no. 107"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
            "page_number": "pp. 35-41, 71-75, 166, no. 92"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Louis, William Noel, and Daniel H. Weiss. <em>The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible</em>. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002.",
            "page_number": "pp. 83-97"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "p. 186, cat. no. 83"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. <em>Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "p. 284-5, cat. 107"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550</em>. München: Hirmer, 2007."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1120",
    "creditline": "Gift of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:39:25.974000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1120/1923.1120_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 104796,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "med": "steel and brass rings, riveted with modern buckles and straps",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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