Masse d'armes à sept ailettes, Italie seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. An Italian seven-flanged mace, second half of the 16th century. Made entirely of steel, the head formed of narrow flanges of shaped outline each rising to an ogival point, brazed onto a gilded tubular core and the head retained by a small moulded knop, with tubular haft decorated over its length with a trellis of strapwork boldly chiselled in relief, a simple moulding at each end, the lower moulding pierced for a thong, the grip chiselled in continuation of the trellis pattern, and with spirally fluted basal finial. L.: 61.5 cm.
Masse d'armes à sept ailettes, Italie seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. An Italian seven-flanged mace, second half of the 16th century. Made entirely of steel, the head formed of narrow flanges of shaped outline each rising to an ogival point, brazed onto a gilded tubular core and the head retained by a small moulded knop, with tubular haft decorated over its length with a trellis of strapwork boldly chiselled in relief, a simple moulding at each end, the lower moulding pierced for a thong, the grip chiselled in continuation of the trellis pattern, and with spirally fluted basal finial. L.: 61.5 cm.
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