Mace

ca. 1550 (Renaissance) 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm) Citation Source image

A mace is a club-like weapon with a shaft and a large head, often with radiating flanges. In the Middle Ages, it was used by a knight on horseback in the combat that followed the initial charge with lances. With technical improvements in armor and other weapons, it lost its ro...

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Hollingworth Magniac (1786-1867), Colworth, Bedford [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Charles Magniac, Colworth, 1867, by inheritance; Sale, Christie's, London, July 2 or 4, 1892, no. 911; Clements [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 29, 1924, no. 64; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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