4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
166
‡ AN ITALIAN SWORD WITH ‘CRAB-CLAW’ HILT, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY VENETIAN
with tapering blade of hollow-diamond section, iron hilt of flattened moulded bars (slightly loose), comprising a pair of drooping quillons with scrolling terminals, an additional pair of basal lugs en suite, three outer ring-guards of diminishing size towards the base, the upper two with a scalloped plate between (small holes, areas of pitting), faceted ovoid pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’, 84.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S747
A number of swords of this type are preserved in the Armoury of the Doges Palace, Venice, see Franzoi 1990, p. 91, cat. nos. 179.
Sold for £1,300
with tapering blade of hollow-diamond section, iron hilt of flattened moulded bars (slightly loose), comprising a pair of drooping quillons with scrolling terminals, an additional pair of basal lugs en suite, three outer ring-guards of diminishing size towards the base, the upper two with a scalloped plate between (small holes, areas of pitting), faceted ovoid pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’, 84.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S747
A number of swords of this type are preserved in the Armoury of the Doges Palace, Venice, see Franzoi 1990, p. 91, cat. nos. 179.
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024, 4th Dec, 2024
Auction Location: London, UK
Including:
THE BILL TERRY COLLECTION, PART II: NON WESTERN ARCHERY
THE ROY ELVIS COLLECTION OF INDIAN ARMS & ARMOUR, PART V
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES SOMERS COCKS, 3RD EARL SOMERS (1819-83), EASTNOR CASTLE, THENCE BY DESCENT
AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
THE ROBERT E. BROOKER JR. COLLECTION OF RARE ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR, PART ONE: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
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