26th Jun, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria
210
‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN RAPIER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, WITH SILVER-ENCRUSTED HILT, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
with tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, signed 'Maderet' within a slender fuller on each face, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with triangular terminals with bud-shaped finials, outer ring-guard, inner-guard with thumb-ring, flattened pear-shaped pommel, the principal bars encrusted with silver including a running pattern of foliage, fish on the quillon terminals, a dragon slayed by an armoured figure on one face of the pommel and the hound Cerberus on the reverse, and pommel the grip bound with plaited wire between 'Turk's Heads', 90.7 cm blade
Provenance
The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby’s, 5th May 1983, lot 129
Sold for £4,200
with tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, signed 'Maderet' within a slender fuller on each face, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with triangular terminals with bud-shaped finials, outer ring-guard, inner-guard with thumb-ring, flattened pear-shaped pommel, the principal bars encrusted with silver including a running pattern of foliage, fish on the quillon terminals, a dragon slayed by an armoured figure on one face of the pommel and the hound Cerberus on the reverse, and pommel the grip bound with plaited wire between 'Turk's Heads', 90.7 cm blade
Provenance
The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby’s, 5th May 1983, lot 129
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 26th Jun, 2024
Viewing
Public Exhibition
Sunday 23rd June: 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Monday 24th June: 10:00am to 7.00pm
Tuesday 25th June: 10.00am to 5.00pm
AUCTION DAY: 26TH JUNE 2024, AT 11:00am
