A GERMAN SWEPT-HILT RAPIER with long double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, the forte decorated with etching, and with central inscribed fuller, iron hilt comprising flat knuckle-guard, long rear quillon with downcurved end, and arms linked by an oval side-ring, slender trifurcated inner guard, and barrel-shaped pommel, the main surfaces chiselled in low relief with strapwork and bunches of foliage and fruit against a gilt ground framing recesses probably originally containing figures, and wire-bound wooden grip (some wear and rust patination overall), early 17th Century | Christie's

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A GERMAN SWEPT-HILT RAPIER with long double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, the forte decorated with etching, and with central inscribed fuller, iron hilt comprising flat knuckle-guard, long rear quillon with downcurved end, and arms linked by an oval side-ring, slender trifurcated inner guard, and barrel-shaped pommel, the main surfaces chiselled in low relief with strapwork and bunches of foliage and fruit against a gilt ground framing recesses probably originally containing figures, and wire-bound wooden grip (some wear and rust patination overall), early 17th Century

細節

A GERMAN SWEPT-HILT RAPIER with long double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, the forte decorated with etching, and with central inscribed fuller, iron hilt comprising flat knuckle-guard, long rear quillon with downcurved end, and arms linked by an oval side-ring, slender trifurcated inner guard, and barrel-shaped pommel, the main surfaces chiselled in low relief with strapwork and bunches of foliage and fruit against a gilt ground framing recesses probably originally containing figures, and wire-bound wooden grip (some wear and rust patination overall), early 17th Century
44in. blade

拍品專文

The style of the decoration is remeniscent of the work of the Munich steel-chiseller Ottmar Wetter (d.1598). See, for example Hans Stöcklein, Meister des Eisenschnittes, 1922, pl. I