Rapière à branches décorée dans le style... - Lot 226 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Rapière à branches décorée dans le style... - Lot 226 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Rapière à branches décorée dans le style allemand, montée avec une lame vers 1590-1600. A German decorated swept-hilt rapier, assembled with a blade circa 1590-1600. With long slender blade of flattened hexagonal section struck with a mark, a bifurcated cross, formed with a rectangular ricasso shouldered for the hilt, stamped with the bladesmith's signature "P.E.T.R.O.V.S" and "M.V.N.S.T.E.N" within the engraved short fuller on respective sides at the forte, the ricasso decorated with later etching and gilding, later gilt-iron hilt cast in low relief and decorated with varieties of running patterns of foliage involving fleur-de-lys at the centre, a late 16th century bronze pommel finely cast on both sides with a symmetrical pattern of scrolling foliage issuant from a winged demon mask and supported by half-figures (re-worked around the base and re-gilt), and fitted with a later grip moulded in two stages and wrapped with patterned iron wire bound with "Turk's-heads". L. overall: 133.3 cm - L. blade: 116.2 cm - W.: 22,5 cm. The bladesmith Peter Munsten worked in Solingen in the late 16th century and was succeeded by his son, Peter "the Younger". A sword blade signed "PETROVS MVNSTEN" is in the Historisches Museum, Dresden (Nr. 166). See BOEHEIM, Wendelin, Meister der Waffenschmiedekunst, Berlin, 1891, pp. 151-3. Also see WEYERSBERG, Albert, Solinger Schwertschmiede des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts und ihre Erzeugnisse, Solingen, 1926, p. 39.
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