拍品 99
99
A MEDIEVAL SWORD, in excavated condition, the heavy flat double-edged blade (point missing) with central fuller and a cross within a circle inlaid in latten on each face of the forte, the iron hilt comprising spatulate horizontally recurved quillons, tang struck on one face with a mark, and flat octagonal pommel with prominent central boss on each face, 15th Century, probably Venetian

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A MEDIEVAL SWORD, in excavated condition, the heavy flat double-edged blade (point missing) with central fuller and a cross within a circle inlaid in latten on each face of the forte, the iron hilt comprising spatulate horizontally recurved quillons, tang struck on one face with a mark, and flat octagonal pommel with prominent central boss on each face, 15th Century, probably Venetian
34in. blade

拍品專文

This is a type of sword of which many examples are found in the Doges' armoury in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice. They are referred to in the early inventories as "spada schiavonesca"

See Boccia & Coelho, Armi Bianche Italiane, 1975, p. 345, Nos. 165-167