Épée « a la Jineta » dans le goût Nasride,... - Lot 93 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Épée « a la Jineta » dans le goût Nasride, joliment damasquinée dans un style hispano-mauresque, jadis exposée par le fourbisseur munichois Johann Stroblberger et peut-être produite par son atelier, fin XIXe siècle. A fine damascened sword, Jineta, in the nasrid Hispano- Moresque taste, formerly displayed by the Munich Swordcutler Johann Stroblberger and perhaps from his workshop, late 19th century. With very slender blade formed in two stages, the lower part flattened and etched with a gilt panel filled with an inscription inhabited by minute birds that is repeated by a different hand on the reverse side, blued iron hilt modelled on the Nasrid type, finely damascened in delicate gold and silver bands of leafy tendrils linked by linear interlace, heightened with pellets, circles and stars, and enclosing rosette-shaped cartouches filled with a brief inscription repeated on both sides of the pommel and guard, the grip retaining its original white rayskin covering, and the hilt in fine condition throughout. L. overall: 105.3 cm - L. blade: 84.3 cm - W.: 9.3 cm. The inscription on the blade was translated by Dr. Stefan Hedelmann of Berlin as "Al-Kâmil Sayf ad-Dîn Chaban": the name of a Mameluk Bahri Sultan ruling in 1345-1346 A.D. (A.H. 746-747). The sword was inspired by the very small surviving group of richly decorated Hispano-Moresque swords dating from the latter part of the Nasrid dynasty (1238-1492 AD.), the capital of which was the city of Grenada. Surviving examples include three made for the last Sultan Abu Abdullah Muhammad XII, called "Boabdil" (circa 1460-1533), one of which is in the Museo del Ejército (24.902), Madrid, another in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cabinet des Médailles, collection de Luynes (959), and another in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (B II 608), Kassel.