Lot Essay
For other swords with similarly decorated hilts, see J. Puype, The Visser Collection, I, 1996, Nos. 556-60
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A DUTCH TRANSITIONAL RAPIER
Circa 1660
With long, slender, tapering blade of flattened diamond section with a deep fuller on each face of the forte stamped 'IHN SOLINGEN', the steel hilt comprising shallow cup formed of two assymetrical shells, arms, horizontally recurved quillons, flattened ovoidal pommel, and wire-bound woodend grip (possibly replaced), the quillons chiselled as half-length semi-nude male and female figures issuing from the mouth of a sea monster, and the rest of the hilt with cavalry battle scences, in low relief on the interior of the cup, and high relief elsewhere
36½in. (92.7cm.) blade
Circa 1660
With long, slender, tapering blade of flattened diamond section with a deep fuller on each face of the forte stamped 'IHN SOLINGEN', the steel hilt comprising shallow cup formed of two assymetrical shells, arms, horizontally recurved quillons, flattened ovoidal pommel, and wire-bound woodend grip (possibly replaced), the quillons chiselled as half-length semi-nude male and female figures issuing from the mouth of a sea monster, and the rest of the hilt with cavalry battle scences, in low relief on the interior of the cup, and high relief elsewhere
36½in. (92.7cm.) blade
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