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A Fine And Rare Greek Kilij Commemorating The Battle Of Arcole In 1796 image 1
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A Fine And Rare Greek Kilij Commemorating The Battle Of Arcole In 1796
Reign Of King Othon (1832-1862)

Antique Arms and Armour Including the S. James Gooding Collection
25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine And Rare Greek Kilij Commemorating The Battle Of Arcole In 1796
Reign Of King Othon (1832-1862)

With broad curved blade of characteristic form double-edged towards the point (some pitting) in front of the yelman, the latter chiselled with an arabesque on each side, the back of the blade chiselled with a slender medial line between arabesques and flanked by a narrow fuller, the forte inlaid in gold with a symmetrical panel of arabesques, a cartouche-shaped panel enclosing 'Mashallah' in nasta'liq beyond, hilt comprising silver-gilt quillon-block nielloed with foliage involving a building on a martial trophy on each side, all against a punched ground and with pointed langets and tapering quillons, the latter each with bud-shaped terminal en suite, silver grip-strap nielloed with a repeated design of foliage, and rounded rhinoceros horn grips (minor insect damage) indented for the fingers, and rounded pommel pierced for a sword-knot and with nielloed drop-shaped silver mount on each side, in original wood-lined silver-gilt scabbard elaborately nielloed over each side with the Greek royal arms between lion supporters and martial trophies, further martial trophies involving buildings and a lion, a townscape, foliage, and a representation of Napoleon Bonaparte leading his troops over the bridge of Arcole, a panel inscribed in Greek and dated '15 N: 1796' beneath, all against gilt punched grounds and between nielloed borders of running foliage, shaped suspension mounts en suite and each with a ring for suspension, and retaining much of its original gilding
71 cm. blade

Footnotes

The Battle of Arcole was fought between the French and Austrian forces on 15-17 November 1796 southeast of Verona during the War of the First Coalition, a part of the French Revolutionary Wars

King Othon of Greece (1815-1867) was a Bavarian Prince who became the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London. He reigned until his disposition in 1862

For related swords see Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, pp. 282, 292 and 293, figs. 367, 395-397

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