Très belle rapière à coquille ciselée, Espagne... - Lot 210 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Très belle rapière à coquille ciselée, Espagne... - Lot 210 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Très belle rapière à coquille ciselée, Espagne ou Naples vers 1650-60. A very fine cup-hilt rapier, Spanish or Neapolitan, circa 1650-60. With long slender blade of flattened hexagonal section flattened and widening towards a short spear point, the forte formed as a separate stage with blunt thicker edges and a broad central fuller with linear borders capped by a cross, stamped with the bladesmith's signature "MALVANTA" on one side and "IN TOLETA" on the other, iron hilt of plain rounded bars with compressed button mouldings at the tips and in the centre of the knuckle-guard, cupguard formed of a pair of plates canted towards the pommel and joined by a fluted common base, the flutes developing into a series of very slender bars looping upwards left and right, the plates carried conventionally by a pair of arms, supported additionally from above by a pair of slender bars linking the sides of the outer plate to the middle of the rear quillon and to the upper junction of the knuckle-guard respectively, compressed circular pommel rising to a button, and original spirally moulded grip bound with patterned wire between "Turk's heads", the cup-guard fitted with guardapolvo finely chiselled with a pierced relief band of flowerheads spiralling around a band of strawberry foliage, the inner and outer plates finely chiselled with a complex pierced interlace of matching spiralling flowers involving pairs of monsters' heads at the top, the outer plate also involving a pair of huntsmen and their dog holding a boar at bay, the inner plate carrying a central medallion engraved with a rustic couple in an embrace, with chiselled strawberry foliage clustered about the borders, and preserved in fine untouched condition throughout. L. overall: 124.7 cm - L. blade: 113 cm - W.: 30.2 cm. During the 16th and 17th century the Kingdom of Naples was part of the Kingdom of Spain whose Kings governed their Italian possession through a designated Viceroy. The Kings of Spain also owned the Duchy
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