Dague composite à poignée en buis sculpté,... - Lot 189 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Dague composite à poignée en buis sculpté, en partie milieu XVIe siècle, la poignée milieu XVIIe siècle. A composite German quillon dagger with carved boxwood hilt, partly mid-16th century, the boxwood hilt mid-17th century. With slender sharply tapering blade formed with a prominent full length medial ridge on both sides, the lower half etched with panels of foliage framing a two-line inscription (heavily rubbed), small iron guard formed with a fluted hemispherical shell and a pair of short drooping quillons, the latter triangular both in shape and section, later iron ferrule, and boxwood hilt carved with standing figures from classical mythology, partly in the round, with Hercules in his final Labour, Cerebus chained at his feet and a female figure at his side, perhaps Athena, the figural composition backed by a flourish of scrollwork. L.: 39 cm.