MID-16TH CENTURY
Details
A Fine Austrian Sword
Mid-16th Century
The sharply-tapering blade with a double fuller on each face of the forte, changing to a single one and inlaid with a cross, the iron hilt retaining its original blued finish and comprising slightly arched quillons with spatulate ends, semi-circular side-ring, single arm and inner diagonal guard and thumb-ring, covered-cup shaped pommel and original wooden grip covered with leather tooled with a trellis pattern
38¾in. (98.4cm.) blade
A number of similar swords are preserved at Schloss Ambras, near Innsbruck
Mid-16th Century
The sharply-tapering blade with a double fuller on each face of the forte, changing to a single one and inlaid with a cross, the iron hilt retaining its original blued finish and comprising slightly arched quillons with spatulate ends, semi-circular side-ring, single arm and inner diagonal guard and thumb-ring, covered-cup shaped pommel and original wooden grip covered with leather tooled with a trellis pattern
38¾in. (98.4cm.) blade
A number of similar swords are preserved at Schloss Ambras, near Innsbruck
Provenance
Franz Thill, Vienna
Baron C.A. de Cosson, Sotheby & Co., 14 May 1929, Lot 86
W.J. Pavyer
R.T. Gwynn
Baron C.A. de Cosson, Sotheby & Co., 14 May 1929, Lot 86
W.J. Pavyer
R.T. Gwynn
Literature
J.F. Hayward, 'A Notable Private Collection. XVth and XVIth Century Armour and Swords in the Collection of R.T. Gwynn, Esquire', The Connoisseur Year Book, 1954, p. 44, fig. XIX (a)
Claude Blair, European & American Arms, plate 87
Claude Blair, European & American Arms, plate 87
Further details
See front cover illustration