**A HIGHLY DECORATED GLAIVE (FOUCHARD) AFTER THOSE MADE FOR THE GUARD OF CARDINAL SCIPIONE BORGHESE-CAFFARELLI (1576-1633), 19TH CENTURY with curved knife-like blade formed with a lobe on the back-edge, a large pierced shaped rear fluke with reinforced spike, a pair of shaped basal lugs, and tapering socket, chiselled over its lower two thirds with strapwork panels enriched with pellets, variously filled with the Papal tiara and crossed keys, a coronet impaled by branches of palm and olive, a basilisk, the arms of Borghese beneath a cardinal's cap, an eagle displayed and grotesques, tapering moulded socket decorated en suite, on a later fabric-covered haft 90.5 cm; 35 5/8 in head Provenance Giulia P. Morosini, sold American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 10th-15th October 1932, lot 474 JWHA Inv. No. 1782 Laking stated that twenty five fauchards from this group were extant in the Palazzo Borghese in the 18th Century. Genuine examples are preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the former Imperial Armoury, Vienna, The Royal Armoury Turin and the Princes Odescalchi, Rome. See Sir G. F. Laking 1919, vol. IV, p. 342 and for a further discussion N. McCullough and P. Missillier 2011, p. 272.