About the Artwork
Small Sword
ca. 1780
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French
French
Steel and gold
Overall: 42 × 4 × 3 3/8 inches (106.7 × 10.2 × 8.6 cm) Overall (length of blade): 35 inches (88.9 cm)
Arms and Armor
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass
58.296
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Markings
Inscribed, on blade, near hilt: F.W.
Provenance
Lillian Henkel Haass
1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Keller, K.T., Edgar P. Richardson and William A. Bostick. “The Arts Commission,” Bulletin of the DIA 38, no. 3 (1958–1959): 34–56, p. 53.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
French, Small Sword, ca. 1780, steel and gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 58.296.
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