Description
This weapon has an especially handsome configuration of hilt, pommel, quillons, and guard. The blade is also very finely wrought and bears the mark (a unicorn head) of the German swordsmith, Clemens Horn, of Solingen, a town near Düsseldorf. The Latin inscription on the blade reads in translation: "Neither without cause, nor fearfully/Between arms and silent law/ Prize truth and the fight for one's country."
Provenance
Charles Alexander, Baron de Cosson (1846-1929), England; Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?-1916); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1916-)
Accession Number
1916.697
Medium
steel, blued and gilded
Dimensions
Overall: 111.1 cm (43 3/4 in.); Blade: 89.2 cm (35 1/8 in.); Quillions: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
Classification
Arms and Armor
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
