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 32.
COURT SWORD English (?),
1700
Hilt steel carved in low
relief against slightly
tooled silvered background.
Motifs of guard classical
- chariots, horsemen,
attendants. Grip of wire-wound
silver wire. Turks' heads
replaced by brass bands.
Knuckle guard with beaded
borders.
Blade of lozenge section,
colechimarde; forte with
deep groove and inscription:
left, PEDRO DEL MONTE,
right, TOLEDO.
14.25.1213  L.
107 (91) Wt.
497
Note: The present hilt
is probably of the Hounslow
school.
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 33.
COURT SWORD XVIII Century
Hilt steel. Round guard
strongly cupped, carved
ajouré on blade side in
low relief with motif
of palmettes and scrolled
scalloped shells against
scale-pattern openwork
ground. Pas d'âne
with incurved ends, possibly
functional. Grip of steel,
carved in three horizontal
bars of arabesque baluster
molding at top and bottom.
Small globose pommel with
arabesque at top and bottom.
Blade associated (1740?),
flattened hexagonal; forte
blued, with running wolf
mark punched, and with
traces of brass inlay.
14.25.1093 L.
102 (87) Wt.
624
Note: The present specimen
has not been determined.
The hilt may be Sicilian
and of relatively late
date (1750?). Provenance:
Pourtalès Collection.
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This and the following
four swords may be described
as "in the chinoiserie
manner"; they were probably
made in China after designs
furnished by the East
India Company.
 34.
COURT SWORD "Peking" Work,
Early XVIII Century
Hilt in blue-black bronze
(shakudo); design of plum
blossoms and birds chiseled
in low relief. Guard with
floral scrolls ajouré
and with small panels
in low relief, showing
plum blossoms against
"fish-roe" background,
gilded. Grip of brass
wire, two large and four
small strands having alternating
twist.
Blade three-edged; at forte
gilded with panels etched
diaper-wise, containing
cartouches.
26.145.325 L.
102.5 (86)
Wt. 347.5
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35.
COURT SWORD "Peking" Work,
First Half of XVIII Century
Hilt similar to preceding.
Knuckle guard with baluster
carving at middle and
slight scroll engraved
with gilding in engraved
lines. Rectangular grip
of red bronze wire made
up of two strands of opposite
twist.
Blade apparently of two-edged,
flattened; etched and
gilded with scrolls and
with panel of strapwork
against hatched background;
also star of radiating
ungilded facets.
26.145.324
L. 89 (74) Wt.
391.5
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 36.
COURT SWORD "Peking" Work,
Early XVIII Century
Hilt of black bronze,
with areas richly gilded
and carved in high relief,
sometimes undercut, with
plum blossoms, twigs,
birds, and pagodas. Background
punched in "egg-roe."
Grip of silvered wire,
two large and four small
strands with alternate
twist. Pommel flattened
at top.
Blade double-edged, at
forte becoming flattened
hexagonal, each flattened
side including three parallel
grooves; in central groove
on each side inscription:
X X HEIS X PANIA X X;
in front of central groove
apparently an armorer's
mark.
26.145.326L.
92 (76)
Wt. 478.5
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 37.
DRESS SWORD English, 1710-1720
Hilt in East Indian style
(made in Peking) blackened
and gilded, similar to
preceding, but slightly
smaller. Its grip is wound
differently: (a) five
strands twisted blued
wire, (b) twisted gilded
wire, (c) large strand
composed of pairs of twisted
wire strands, themselves
twisted alternately, blued
and gilded,(d) same as
(C); Turks' heads have
one gold and two blued
strands.
Blade similar to that of
No.35; slightly shorter
and narrower. Above gilded
panel it shows additional
strips of gilding in wavy
etched lines.
14.25.1209 L.
85.5 (70) Wt.
371
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