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{
    "localId": "95934",
    "label": "Parrying Dagger",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "95934",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Parrying Dagger",
    "description": "The perforations within the blade were meant to provide elasticity, preventing it from snapping during vigorous parries. The serrations were arranged not for producing an unpleasant wound, but to \"catch\" the adversary's blade.",
    "date": "c. 1580–1610",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1657",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1657/1916.1657_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 26.5 cm (10 7/16 in.); Blade: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.); Quillions: 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, late 16th - early 17th Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.1657"
}

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    "tec": "steel, copper wire",
    "tombstone": "Parrying Dagger, c. 1580–1610. Italy, late 16th - early 17th Century. Steel, copper wire; overall: 26.5 cm (10 7/16 in.); blade: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.); quillions: 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1657",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. Vol. 2, <em>16th century</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (103) 106",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour2_201602/page/n470"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 217, I19; Reproduced: Plate XLVI, I19",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n310"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. <em>Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor</em>. 2d ed., 1948.",
            "page_number": "Reproduction: p. 48",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n55"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1657",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:09:42.690000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1657/1916.1657_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 95934,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "med": "steel, copper wire",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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