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17TH CENTURY AND LATER
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A GROUP OF FOUR RAPIER POMMELS
17th Century and later
The first possibly English and formed as an openwork cage of plain bars; the second chiselled with a pierced design of vertical panels of scrollwork and flowerheads enclosing masks and a pair of addorsed figures at the centre; the third cut with an openwork design of interlaced cabled links arranged in three bands and the central band filled with covered urn motifs; and the last formed as a covered gadrooned urn. (4)
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The first possibly English and formed as an openwork cage of plain bars; the second chiselled with a pierced design of vertical panels of scrollwork and flowerheads enclosing masks and a pair of addorsed figures at the centre; the third cut with an openwork design of interlaced cabled links arranged in three bands and the central band filled with covered urn motifs; and the last formed as a covered gadrooned urn. (4)
Provenance
S.J. Whawell, Sotheby's & Co., May 3, 1927, lot 164
Theodore Offerman, New York, 1927
Theodore Offerman, New York, 1927
Exhibited
The British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924-25
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium