A Hunting Cleaver

THE BLADE IN GERMAN LATE 15TH CENTURY STYLE, THE HILT PERHAPS 18TH CENTURY

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A Hunting Cleaver
The blade in German late 15th Century style, the hilt perhaps 18th Century
With heavy single-edged oblong blade cut off straight at the point, and etched on one face with a complex swastika and a maker's mark, brass hilt in rococo style with short slender quillons and cap-pommel cast in relief with grotesque masks and foliage, and tapering ivory grip
17in. (43.2cm.)

Lot Essay

The marks on the blade are probably copied from those on a pair of German serving-knives in the Wallace Collection (inv. no.s A 884-886). Ormolu quillons and pommel of identical design occur on a hunting sword in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (inv. no. 81)

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