Estoc à une main et demi, dans le style vénitien... - Lot 63 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Estoc à une main et demi, dans le style vénitien du XVIe siècle, XIXe siècle. A Hand-and-a-Half sword, in Venetian 16th century style, 19th century. With tapering blade with the abbreviated inscriptions "+ M.D.N.A.I +" and "+ R.H.G.S.V +" inlaid in copper within the long fuller on the respective sides and struck with a spurious mark on one side, the hilt cast with pairs of curled scrolls at the centre and at the quillon ends, the pommel en suite, and with three-stage grip formed of iron at both ends and of vertical panels of white horn set between vertical iron fillets (one horn panel missing). L. overall: 134.5 cm - L. blade: 104.5 cm. This sword would appear to have been inspired by an example dating from the second half of the 16th century in the Armoury of the Doges' Palace, Venice. See FRANZOI, Umberto, L'Armeria del Palazzo Ducale a Venezia, 1990, No. 189, pp.92-93, fig. 57.