AN ITALIAN CINQUEDEA OF THE HISTORISMUS PERIOD with triangular double-edged blade with traces of etching, each face divided into fullered panels reducing from four at the base to two at the point, the hilt of gilt-copper set with recessed silver plaques cast and chased with pseudo-classical trophies of arms and four fine niellos, one with a portrait of Alfonso II d'Este and the others with the crowned displayed eagle of the Este arms, in original wooden scabbard covered with crimson velvet with gilt-copper mounts chased with foliage framing on the locket two crowned cartouches bearing respectively the Este arms and the inscription 'Alfonsus II DVX', the chape embossed and chased as a wolf's head, second quarter of the 19th Century, the blade possibly late 15th Century | Christie's

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AN ITALIAN CINQUEDEA OF THE HISTORISMUS PERIOD with triangular double-edged blade with traces of etching, each face divided into fullered panels reducing from four at the base to two at the point, the hilt of gilt-copper set with recessed silver plaques cast and chased with pseudo-classical trophies of arms and four fine niellos, one with a portrait of Alfonso II d'Este and the others with the crowned displayed eagle of the Este arms, in original wooden scabbard covered with crimson velvet with gilt-copper mounts chased with foliage framing on the locket two crowned cartouches bearing respectively the Este arms and the inscription 'Alfonsus II DVX', the chape embossed and chased as a wolf's head, second quarter of the 19th Century, the blade possibly late 15th Century

细节

AN ITALIAN CINQUEDEA OF THE HISTORISMUS PERIOD with triangular double-edged blade with traces of etching, each face divided into fullered panels reducing from four at the base to two at the point, the hilt of gilt-copper set with recessed silver plaques cast and chased with pseudo-classical trophies of arms and four fine niellos, one with a portrait of Alfonso II d'Este and the others with the crowned displayed eagle of the Este arms, in original wooden scabbard covered with crimson velvet with gilt-copper mounts chased with foliage framing on the locket two crowned cartouches bearing respectively the Este arms and the inscription 'Alfonsus II DVX', the chape embossed and chased as a wolf's head, second quarter of the 19th Century, the blade possibly late 15th Century
25¼in.

拍品专文

This belongs to a group of elaborate cinquedeas of which other examples are in the Armeria Reale, Turin, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg and the former Zeughaus Collection, Berlin. See H. Schedelmann, 'Der Waffensammler. Gefälschte Prunkwaffen', Waffen- und Kostümkunde, VII (1965), pp. 124-127