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Lot 100W

A Large Italian Glaive
Late 15th/Early 16th Century

30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Large Italian Glaive
Late 15th/Early 16th Century

With knife-like blade with convex single edge back-edged towards the point beyond a petalled projection, crescent-shaped rear spike with pairs of cusps and central projection en suite, and two petalled basal side-lugs, decorated over half its length on both sides with symmetrical designs of punched strapwork and foliage partly against punched fishroe grounds and retaining some original gilding, and linked by an integral cushion-shaped moulding to a tapering socket of flattened hexagonal section decorated en suite, shortened side-straps, and later wooden staff of octagonal section (some surface pitting)
89.1 cm. head

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