CIRCA 1600-10

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A FINE GERMAN SWEPT-HILT RAPIER
CIRCA 1600-10
WITH LONG SLENDER BLADE OF FLATTENED HEXAGONAL SECTION CUT WITH A SHORT FULLER ON EACH SIDE RESPECTIVELY STAMPED 'JOHANNIS OLLICH' AND 'IN SOLINGEN', GROOVED RICASSO OF RECTANGULAR SECTION STAMPED WITH THE BLADESMITH'S MARK, A SPUR WITHIN A PEARLED OVAL, IRON HILT COMPRISING GUARD OF PIERCED FLATTENED BARS INCLUDING STRAIGHT QUILLONS JOINED TO THE SIDE-RING BY ARMS, KNUCKLE-GUARD, AND A DIAGONAL S-SHAPED BAR EXTENDING FROM THE JUNCTION OF THE SIDE-RING TO THE KNUCKLE-GUARD, THE S-SHAPED BAR CHISELLED WITH A PAIR OF RECLINING FEMALE FIGURES IN THE CENTRE AND A WARRIOR AT THE JUNCTION WITH THE KNUCKLE-GUARD, THE SIDE-RING CHISELLED WITH A RECLINING BACCHANALIAN FIGURE, THE REMAINDER CHISELLED WITH MYTHICAL CREATURES AND FLOWER-HEADS WITHIN ROPED BORDERS, TRIFURCATED INNER-GUARD OF ROUNDED BARS JOINED TO THE KNUCKLE-GUARD BY A SINGLE BAR, FLATTENED OPENWORK POMMEL DEPICTING THE SACRIFICE OF ISSAC ON THE FRONT AND HERCULES SLAYING THE NEMEAN LION ON THE REVERSE, AND SPIRALLY FLUTED WIRE-BOUNDED WOODEN GRIP
41½IN. (105.4CM.) BLADE

來源

ANON. SALE, SOTHEBY'S, OLYMPIA, 30TH JUNE 2004, LOT 31.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

拍場告示

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LOT HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO SOME RESTORATION WORK.

拍品專文

THE CHISELLED DECORATION ON THE HILT IS VERY SIMILAR TO A RAPIER IN THE COLLECTION AT VESTE COBURG (INV. NO. II.A 58). THERE IS A CLOSE RESEMBLANCE TO A SMALL GROUP OF HILTS EACH CHISELLED IN HIGH RELIEF WITH EXAMPLES PRESERVED IN THE WALLACE COLLECTION, LONDON (INV. NO. A589), THE TøJHUSMUSEET, COPENHAGEN (INV. NO. C.217/1942), THE SCHWEIZERISCHES LANDESMUSEUM, ZURICH (INV. NO. A.G. 2476), THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK (INV. NO. 1973.27.3) AND THE SAXON SAXON ELECTORAL ARMOURIES, DRESDEN. SEE A.V.B. NORMAN, THE RAPIER AND SMALL-SWORD, 1460-1820, 1980, P. 371