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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1540 - 1550; Classification(s): weapons, sword, casting (process), sword, cast, with chiselled and engraved decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Hendeson Bequest [HEN.M.204-1933]
Description: Sword. Hilt of bright steel. Large conical pommel, without a tang-button, circular in plan with an elegant neck below the base. The front and back are each decorated with a triangular patch of chiselling, of vague floriate design. Grip (in original condition) of oval section, strongly shouldered about 2.5 cm from the top, where it meets the neck of the pommel, covered in fishskin, with leather on the upper part. The guards, all of well-shaped hexagonal section consist of quillons and branches. The long forward and rear quillons are horizontally recurved and widen to a slight balbosity at the tips. The branches support a large upper ring-guard forward of the ecusson, and a smaller one joining the lower elements. The upper ring-guard supports a thumb-ring set at right angles to the plane of the blade. The blade is long and very slightly tapering, of flat hexagonal section, decorated for 24.1 cm (9 ?") below the ricasso with a waved pattern. The strong ricasso is stamped with a maker's mark on one side. Below it, the centre of the blade is decorated with engraved straight lines along each 'edge' of the flat piece against the chamfer towards each edge of the blade; between these lines, a long zigzag line. | 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: | Unknown weapons sword | Temporal: | name=mid-16th Century; start=1540; end=1550 | 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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