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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1620; Classification(s): weapons, rapier, casting (process), sword, cast, with inlaid silver decoration on hilt, and decorated designs in the silver repouss? on a blackened ground on the guards (except back-guards), on fullers punched marks; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1946-12-23, Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [M.14-1946]
Description: Ovoid pommel with barrel-shaped button. Spirally-grooved grip bound with silver, in alternating strands of flat ribbon and twisted wire, the ribbon being within the spiral grooves. Turks' heads at top and bottom. Knuckle-guard of circular section, with an elaborate out-turned feature at the top. Long, straight quillons of circular section, widening towards the ends, with a strong cusped ecusson. The rest of the hilt emits branches, loop-guard and three ring-guards, all of circular section, springing from the ends of the branches. Back-guard of four elements. All of the guards, except the back-guards, ae decorated with designs in the silver repouss? on a blackened ground, in the manner of contemporary English decoration. Long blade of flat hexagonal section. There is a flat ricasso, the faces of which are slightly hollowed, and double fullers at the forte. In the ricasso, the name PICININO in a cartouche is engraved, and in some of the fullers are indeterminate punched marks.
Hilt type (Norman) 61. Pommel type 29. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | rapier Unknown weapons | Temporal: | name=early 17th Century; start=1600; end=1620 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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