Épée de style italien du Nord vers 1520,... - Lot 169 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Épée de style italien du Nord vers 1520, XIXe siècle. A North Italian shortsword, in the style of circa 1520, 19th century. With later broad double-edged blade tapering to a narrow point, formed with a low medial ridge, the base of the blade etched with an incised and gilt panel filled with an eagle within the left field and a shield bearing a quartered coat-of-arms on the right later gilt-iron crosspiece downcurved towards the ends and with the tips scrolling inwards, gilt-bronze wheel pommel with cabled rounded edges and raised segmented centre, and composite grip set between shaped giltiron collars and reinforced by a series of moulded and gilt vertical bars over a later wire binding. L. overall: 79.5 cm - L. blade: 66 cm - W.: 12 cm. The present sword compares with an example attributed to 1520 and to the city of Ferrara, presumably on the basis of the fine etching on the blade; this sword is preserved in the musée de Cluny, Paris (12081a). See BOCCIA, Lionello G., & COELHO, Eduardo T., Armi Bianche Italiane, 1975, Nos. 239-40, p.354. A dagger also with a comparable hilt is in the Museo Poldi- Pezzoli, Milan, given as Italian or French (cat. n. 732). See BOCCIA, Lionello G. & GODOY, Jose A., Museo Poldi-Pezzoli, Armeria. II, 1986, ill. 833, p. 620. The dagger offered as the following lot is a close match with the present Sword.