Rare hallebarde gravée de cérémonie pour... - Lot 107 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Rare hallebarde gravée de cérémonie pour la traBantenleiB-garde d'Auguste, prince-électeur de Saxe (r.1553-86), Allemagne vers 1580. A rare German etched State halberd of the traBantenleiB-garde of August, Prince Elector of Saxony (reigned 1553-86), circa 1580. The head with slender central spike of stiff-diamond section, rear fluke cut with cusped ornament over the basal edges and formed with a reinforced point, axe-blade with crescentic edge and cusped back edges, and rectangular socket extending to form four long straps, etched with large panels of strapwork enriched with close-set designs of scrollwork, the axe-blade bearing the arms of Saxony in a cartouche on one face and the arms of The Archmarshalship of The Holy Roman Empire on the other, each retaining much original gilding, the straps etched with a running pattern of stylised leaf ornament, and the etching all against a contrasting blackened ground, on its original faceted wooden haft (shortened). H. head: 76 cm - H. overall: 167 cm. Provenance: The Saxon Electoral Armouries, Dresden.