Dague à rouelles de style Gothique bourguignon,... - Lot 176 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Dague à rouelles de style Gothique bourguignon, XIXe siècle. A rondel dagger in the Burgundian Gothic manner, 19th century. With sharply tapering blade formed in three off-set stages, the two lower sections triangular and flattened on one side, the lowest section singleedged and with deeply fluted back-edge, the middle double-edged, the point reinforced for mail piercing, and the base decorated with etched and gilt panels of scrollwork differing on the respective sides, octagonal gilt-iron discguard, rounded disc-pommel, the two parts etched with scrolls around the edges, the pommel capped by a gilt-copper rosette, fitted with spirally-incised bone grip, and in "aged" condition throughout. L. overall: 35.1 cm. See DEAN, Bashford, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of European Daggers, including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs and Reubell Collections, 1300- 1800, New York, 1929. Finely constructed elaborate copies of daggers of this type are included, notably within the Reubell collection.