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THBEarly 17th C. Italian Steel & Wood Glaive
Lot 165
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Western/Southern Europe, Italy, Venice, ca. early to mid-17th century CE. An outstanding polearm known as a glaive with an enormous blade attached to the top of a lengthy octagonal wooden shaft via a socketing shaft. The forged-steel blade features a grand, convex cutting edge with an unsharpened cutting edge opposite a protruding, openwork spike of an ornate design, and displayed along the base are a pair of club-shaped tabs meant to catch an opponent’s weapon. Curvilinear bands in low relief course across each blade face and create petite windows inside which are presented intricate geometric motifs, crowns, and highly stylized avian creatures. Glaives were some of the most feared weapons on Medieval battlefields as they were known to bring low both man and horse alike. This spear is made in the manner of those for the guard of Cardinal Scipione Borghese-Caffarelli. Size: 104.375" L x 8.4" W (265.1 cm x 21.3 cm)
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 14.25.343
Provenance: ex-estate of Eldert Bontekoe, Pegasi Numismatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, acquired before 2000
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#158639Wooden pole is perhaps not original to the blade. Minor abrasions and softening to some finer details on blade, with small indentations to socketing shaft, and light abrasions to wooden pole, otherwise intact and excellent. Wonderful preservation to etched motifs and nice patina throughout.Condition
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