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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1630; Classification(s): weapons, hanger, casting (process), sword, cast; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16 [HEN.M.285-1933]
Description: Hanger. Pommel in the form of an eagle's head, of steel. Knuckle-guard curves outward at the top under the eagle's beak; it swells at midpoint to an oval cartouche crudely carved on each side as a human mask. Very short downcurled rear quillon, its terminal formed as an eagle's head en suite with the pommel. Large, sharply turned down shell-guard on the outside carved ? jour with leaves and tendrils enclosing another mask, turned upward. Two of the tendrils end in grotesque heads, reminiscent of the 'Babewyns' decorating 13th century Mss. Blade curved, back-edged, the last 15.2 cm (6") of the back sharpened, with a long narrow fuller against the back. On the obverse of the blade, the mark 'FERARA', and on the reverse 'ANDRIA'. | 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: | hanger Unknown weapons | Temporal: | name=17th Century; start=1630; end=1630 | 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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