Épée de chevalier composée d'une lame vers... - Lot 17 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Épée de chevalier composée d'une lame vers... - Lot 17 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Épée de chevalier composée d'une lame vers 1350-1400 et d'un pommeau XIVe - fin XVe siècle, la garde postérieure. A Knightly sword composed from a Medieval blade and pommel, the blade circa 1350-1400, the pommel 14th to late 15th century. The blade near flat and cut with a very shallow fuller on each face, tapering to a short point, incised with a pair of coarsely drawn concentric rings on both sides at the forte, each punched at the centre and each with traces of latten inlay, the pommel of so-called pod-shaped type, with convex faces indented at the centre, with a medial ridge over their upper halves, and the sides flat and narrowing towards the top, with slender spirally fluted crosspiece with pointed down-turned tips, and later wooden grip (the crosspiece perhaps 16th century and reworked). L. overall: 96.3 cm - L. blade: 78.8 cm - W.: 23.2 cm. Two 14th century swords bearing Alexandria arsenal inscriptions are also found with similarly coarsely drawn concentric rings on their blades. One was sold at Sotheby's, 26th April 1988, lot 256, and the other is preserved in the Military Museum, Istanbul (Acc. No.21247). Oakeshott classifies this type of pommel as Type W. On the basis of representations of the pommel type in stone effigies, Oakeshott attributes examples in two wide date ranges, from circa 1100 to 1350 and then continuing until the early 16th century. See THOMAS, Clive, The Medieval Swords of Leeds Castle, in the guide of the London Park Lane Arms Fair, Spring 2005, p. 15, figs. 9a, 10 and 11. Also see OAKESHOTT, Ewart R., The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, 1964, pp. 100-02.
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