EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Details
An Italian Partisan
Early 17th Century
The head with long, narrow triangular blade of flattened diamond section, with crescent-shaped side-wings, the lower half etched with running foliage framing, on each face of the base, a shield with the arms of Clari of Milan, linked by a reeded moulding to the tapering eight-side socket, and two side-straps (incomplete) on later cloth-covered wooden staff (cloth damaged)
30¼in. (76.9cm.) head
For a similar partisan see J.F. Hayward, L'Armeria di Monselice
Early 17th Century
The head with long, narrow triangular blade of flattened diamond section, with crescent-shaped side-wings, the lower half etched with running foliage framing, on each face of the base, a shield with the arms of Clari of Milan, linked by a reeded moulding to the tapering eight-side socket, and two side-straps (incomplete) on later cloth-covered wooden staff (cloth damaged)
30¼in. (76.9cm.) head
For a similar partisan see J.F. Hayward, L'Armeria di Monselice
Provenance
Viscount Astor, Hever Castle, Sotheby & Co., 5 May 1983, Lot 141