Très rare et curieux sabre dans le goût de... - Lot 199 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Très rare et curieux sabre dans le goût de... - Lot 199 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Très rare et curieux sabre dans le goût de la cour électorale de Saxe, la garde en cuivre doré serti de coraux rouges, Nuremberg ou Augsbourg vers 1620-30. A very rare exotic sabre in the taste of the Saxon Electoral Court, the hilt of gilt-copper inlaid with red coral, Nuremberg or Augsburg, circa 1620-30. Mounted with a 17th century watered blade forged in the Eastern fashion, the blade curved, double-edged towards the point, cut with a decorative series of short narrow grooves along the back of the fuller and running medially over the central portion of its length on both sides, with gilt-copper hilt cast in high relief, inset with a profusion of small elongated pieces of red coral in raised settings in imitation of a lion's pelt, with a pair of long recurved quillons with lions' paw terminals, their claws formed of coral, a pelt-like down-turned guard between the quillons, lion's head pommel cast in the round and inset with coral eyes and tongue, and in fine restored condition throughout. L.: 90.5 cm - L. blade: 75.2 cm. The mounting of a blade in the Eastern taste was presumably intended to add a heightened sense of mystique and exoticism to the arresting imagery created by the sculpture and colour of the hilt. The contrast of red coral and gilding was employed in the decorative treatment of a variety of luxury silver and base-metal wares produced in Southern Germany and Bohemia during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Notable among these were items made for the Saxon Electors and the nobility of the Dresden Court. The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden holds a series of luxurious short sabres, a pallasch and a degen all with sculpted zoomorphic hilts made within the first half of the 17th century for the Electors Christian I and II, and Johann Georg I and II. These fantasy weapons share with the present sabre the lavish and barely restrained use of semi-precious materials in their construction. See HAENEL, Erich, Kostbare Waffen aus der Dresdner Rüstkamm
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