with associated slender blade of hollow-triangular section, etched and gilt with trophies-of-arms and foliage on a blued panel at the forte, chiselled and parcel gilt iron hilt including double-shell-guard decorated on each face with a central rococo shell on a panel of scrolling foliage, quillon-block, knuckle-guard and pommel en suite, and the grip with a later plaited wire biding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 78.5 cm blade

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.