拍品 36
36
A FINE SOUTH GERMAN HAND-AND-A-HALF SWORD with broad double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section with short fuller on each side of the forte struck with a series of marks, strong ricasso struck with the crossed flails and shield of Bavaria marks of Melchios Diefstetter of Munich, iron guard retaining traces of its blackened finish and comprising long straight spatulate quillons, and double oval side-rings each swelling at the centre, all of flattened rectangular section, and arms of circular section, lemon-shaped pommel, and shouldered flattened leather-covered wooden grip, third quarter of the 16th Century

細節
A FINE SOUTH GERMAN HAND-AND-A-HALF SWORD with broad double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section with short fuller on each side of the forte struck with a series of marks, strong ricasso struck with the crossed flails and shield of Bavaria marks of Melchios Diefstetter of Munich, iron guard retaining traces of its blackened finish and comprising long straight spatulate quillons, and double oval side-rings each swelling at the centre, all of flattened rectangular section, and arms of circular section, lemon-shaped pommel, and shouldered flattened leather-covered wooden grip, third quarter of the 16th Century
44in. blade
來源
Hans Schedelmann, 1966

拍品專文

The marks on the fullers are similar to those on Wallace Collection No. A534, and those on the ricasso to Wallace Collection No.s 480, 481 and 534