4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
187
‡ A VENETIAN SCHIAVONA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
with broad double-edged blade formed with three long fullers on each face, retaining its leather scabbard cover the forte, decorated with a blind flowerhead on the front, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, a pair of straight quillons, one forward-canted, thumb-loop, copper alloy shield-shaped pommel formed with a flowerhead moulding on each face and joined to the guard by a later wire ring, and early leather-covered banded grip, in associated leather-covered wooden scabbard with copper-alloy mounts enclosing the sides of the lower half and the chape applied with a relief panel on each face, 97.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S356
Sold for £2,200
with broad double-edged blade formed with three long fullers on each face, retaining its leather scabbard cover the forte, decorated with a blind flowerhead on the front, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, a pair of straight quillons, one forward-canted, thumb-loop, copper alloy shield-shaped pommel formed with a flowerhead moulding on each face and joined to the guard by a later wire ring, and early leather-covered banded grip, in associated leather-covered wooden scabbard with copper-alloy mounts enclosing the sides of the lower half and the chape applied with a relief panel on each face, 97.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S356
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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