Lot 47
47
AN ITALIAN GLAIVE, with large cleaver-shaped blade with convex main edge, back-edged towards the point with, at the bottom, a small projection formed as the outline of a dolphins head, in the centre of the back a slender upward curving crescentic spike, the base with two side-spikes, tapering socket of flattened octagonal section with prominent cushion moulding at the top, and traces of etching throughout (rust pitted overall), two side-straps (incomplete), and later velvet- covered wooden staff partly set with nails, the heads formed as bronze masks, circa 1587, probably Brescian

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AN ITALIAN GLAIVE, with large cleaver-shaped blade with convex main edge, back-edged towards the point with, at the bottom, a small projection formed as the outline of a dolphins head, in the centre of the back a slender upward curving crescentic spike, the base with two side-spikes, tapering socket of flattened octagonal section with prominent cushion moulding at the top, and traces of etching throughout (rust pitted overall), two side-straps (incomplete), and later velvet- covered wooden staff partly set with nails, the heads formed as bronze masks, circa 1587, probably Brescian
36in. head

Lot Essay

Probably made for the bodyguard of Giovanni Battista Bourbon del Monte (1514-1614), who became Captain General of the Venetian Infantry in 1587. See A.V.B. Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogues. European Arms and Armour Supplement, 1986, No.A 942

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