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Sword with Scabbard

Sword with Scabbard

Artist/Maker
Date14th century
MediumSteel, sharkskin, and black lacquer
DimensionsLength: 37 1/2 in. (95.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Sherwood F. Moran
Object number1973.69A-B
Status
On view
ProvenanceAcquired by Sherwood F. Moran¹; by gift 1973 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH [1] acquired during his time with the Marines in the Occupation forces in Japan at the end of World War IExhibition History
War and Anti-War Images from Four Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 21, 1982 - October 24, 1982 )
None of These Things Is Just Like the Other: Twelve Students Raid the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 13, 1994 - July 17, 1994 )
Japanese Art and Drama
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (December 6, 1996 - March 2, 1997 )
Chinese and Japanese Art from Antiquity to the Present
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 17, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
Asian Art and the Allen: American Collectors in the Early 20th Century
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 19, 2014 - July 12, 2015 )
Collections
  • On View
  • Asian
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