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ITALIAN CITY RAPIER, KNOWN AS THE ‘SPADA DA LATO’.
See original version (French)
273
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ITALIAN CITY RAPIER, KNOWN AS THE ‘SPADA DA LATO’.
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
ITALIAN CITY RAPIER, KNOWN AS THE ‘SPADA DA LATO’.
Iron hilt with a taza.
Fluted pear-shaped pommel.
Forged iron guard in one piece, with multiple branches and a taza. Double straight quillons and a curved joint; openwork taza decorated with gadroons and florets. It is elegantly adorned with a dragon whose tail emerges from one quillon and whose head is coiled around one of the secondary branches. Wooden tang covered with alternating double filigree (on the reverse).
Blade by ‘CLAUDIO BRANCINI’, with ricasso, fuller at the fifth, signed on the inside.
In its original length.
Dated circa 1600.
Total length: 117 cm
See original version (French)
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