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COURT SWORD "Peking" Work,
1750
Small hilt of black bronze
carved in low relief with
Chinese landscapes, birds,
trees, and chrysanthemums
against finely punched
"egg-roe" background,
gilded. Grip en suite.
Pommel flattened.
Blade three-edged, plain.
(page 24)
Scabbard of black pebbled
leather over wood; hook
suspension; ferrule and
chape en suite with hilt.
26.145.327  L.
95.5 (81) Wt.
454
Plate XXIX Reubell Benefaction
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COURT SWORD Dutch, Second
Half of XVIII Century
Hilt black bronze and
gold chiseled ajouré throughout
(in "Javanese" style?)
in spiral design of flowers
and tendrils. Guard heart-shaped,
pointed below knuckle
guard, turning up and
bifurcating as though
to straddle a forward
quillon (cf. No. 68);
as there is but one quillon
in this instance the bifurcate
point is rudimentary;
this double point suggests
the cup hilts of Spanish,
Portuguese, and South
Italian rapiers of late
date. In the design of
guard four flowers of
gold appear in strong
contrast against background
of black tendrils; the
border is of gold tooled
in leaf motif. Grip of
metal en suite,
with flowers and border
line arranged in spiral;
at each end gold bands
tooled with leaf motif
and Greek fret.
Blade two-edged with median
flattening; blued and
gilded over etching to
near point; at base gilded
panel engraved on both
sides: JAN HOSSEE IN ZWAND
VEGER OP DE VYGENDAM TOT
AMSTERDAM; above this,
etching of strapwork,
scrolls, trophies, glories,
facets, and star.
26.145.328L.
90 (74.5) Wt.
402
Note: The present hilt
in the chinoiserie manner
was probably made in the
East by order of the Dutch
East India Company.
Plate XXX Reubell Benefaction
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COURT SWORD French, 1715
Hilt steel, chiseled in
low relief with mythological
figures, flowers, and
scrolls against stippled
gold background. On guard
Cybele (?), Mars, Minerva,
Vulcan. Ricasso, left,
Neptune; right, Ceres.
Grip, left, Venus (?)
and Cupid; right, Diana
and Mercury. Pommel, left,
Juno; right, Jupiter.
Composition of great merit.
Grip ovoid, of metal en
suite.
Blade three-edged; etched
and gilded in lines for
entire length; panel at
base entirely gilt: left,
etching of strapwork against
hatched background; right,
similar etching with medallion
enclosing fleur-de-lis;
etching above this includes
strapwork, scrolls, sun,
and stars.
26.145.296 L.
95 (79) Wt.
431.5
Note: The present sword
is one of the four known
to the writer which date
from the reign of Louis
XIV and carry out a truly
French design.
Plate XXXI Reubell Benefaction
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25)
This and the three following
swords may be described
a "in the German manner."
They date roundly mid-eighteenth
century.
  41.
COURT SWORD German, 1740
Hilt carved in low relief
with figures in classical
costume, horses, caryatids,
parcel-gilt against a
background of matte gold,
stippled. Guard asymmetrical.
Pas d'âne functional,
its elements terminating
in up-curved projections.
Knuckle guard as head
of monster whose protruded
tongue forms attachment
to pommel. Grip with pronounced
central bulge, bound uniformly
with silver wire, braided.
Blade two-edged, with median
flattening, originally
gilded; elaborately etched
throughout with scrolls
and wavy lines, medallions,
inscriptions IN MAGNIS
VOLUISSE SAT EST and RUTGERD
KEISSER, palmettes, crowned
profile bust with sceptre,
and figures labeled HANNABAL,
CAMILUS, PARIS, ABONUS.
26.145.299 L.
93 (77)
Wt. 499
Plate XXXII Reubell Benefaction
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DRESS SWORD German, Mid-XVIII
Century
Hilt brass, carved in
flat relief with foliation
and classical figures
against punctate background.
Grip of banded agate.
Blade of flattened hexagonal
section; at base etched
panel, medallion, trophy,
foliation against background
of wavy lines; above this
bladesmith's mark.
96.5.43 L.
88 (71.5) Wt.
495.5
Provenance: John Stoneacre
Ellis Collection. Given
in Mr. Ellis's memory
by Augustus Van Home Ellis
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26)
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COURT SWORD German, 1750
Hilt of debased silver
chiseled in low relief
against stippled background.
Guard with design of eagle
and monsters within strapwork
scrolls; mascarons at
midpoints of rims. Ricasso
filed in parallel longitudinal
areas, alternately plain
concave and stippled.
Quillon tip as floral
scroll. Knuckle guard
with crested mask and
acanthus leaf. Grip of
heavy silvered twisted
wire-two strands. Pommel
with medallions bearing
heads (Minerva and Nero?)
surrounded by strapwork
in scrolls.
Blade two-edged, flat ground;
forte etched and gilded
over all in baskets bearing
palmettes and strapwork.
26.145.348 L.
98 (81.5) Wt.
638
Plate XXXIII Reubell Benefaction
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