拍品 87
87
A VERY RARE NORTH GERMAN GILT-HILTED RAPIER with tapering double-edged blade (heavily corroded and incomplete), the iron hilt with guard comprising long straight quillons swelling towards the tips, with arms supporting large circular upturned shells below, linked to an elaborate symmetrical arrangement of curved bars on either side of the knuckle-guard, and large globular pommel, gilded and finely engraved throughout with a design of hatched scrolling foliage (grip missing, some bars slightly bent), circa 1630

细节
A VERY RARE NORTH GERMAN GILT-HILTED RAPIER with tapering double-edged blade (heavily corroded and incomplete), the iron hilt with guard comprising long straight quillons swelling towards the tips, with arms supporting large circular upturned shells below, linked to an elaborate symmetrical arrangement of curved bars on either side of the knuckle-guard, and large globular pommel, gilded and finely engraved throughout with a design of hatched scrolling foliage (grip missing, some bars slightly bent), circa 1630
29½in. overall

拍品专文

The hilt is an exceptionally fine version of Norman's Type 76 (The Rapier and Small-Sword, pp. 149-50). Plain examples are in the Livrustkammeren, Stockholm, and the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zürich. Compare also with the guard of rapier No. A639 in the Wallace Collection