A 'TRANSITIONAL' RAPIER with slender tapering blade of flattened diamond section, the single central fullers at the forte stamped respectively 'Matio' and 'Caino', the hilt with double shell-guard pierced and chased with foliage (minor damage to one shell), slender knuckle-guard chiselled with a central scroll of foliage, short rear quillon swelling at the tip, quillon-block chiselled with Classical heads en suite with heads on the globular pommel, and original wire-bound grip, third quarter of the 17th Century, probably Dutch or German | Christie's

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A 'TRANSITIONAL' RAPIER with slender tapering blade of flattened diamond section, the single central fullers at the forte stamped respectively 'Matio' and 'Caino', the hilt with double shell-guard pierced and chased with foliage (minor damage to one shell), slender knuckle-guard chiselled with a central scroll of foliage, short rear quillon swelling at the tip, quillon-block chiselled with Classical heads en suite with heads on the globular pommel, and original wire-bound grip, third quarter of the 17th Century, probably Dutch or German

细节

A 'TRANSITIONAL' RAPIER with slender tapering blade of flattened diamond section, the single central fullers at the forte stamped respectively 'Matio' and 'Caino', the hilt with double shell-guard pierced and chased with foliage (minor damage to one shell), slender knuckle-guard chiselled with a central scroll of foliage, short rear quillon swelling at the tip, quillon-block chiselled with Classical heads en suite with heads on the globular pommel, and original wire-bound grip, third quarter of the 17th Century, probably Dutch or German
34¼in. blade

来源

Dwight Franklin
Howard M. Curtis, sold in these Rooms 31 October, 1984, lot 190