with broad tapering blade formed with a medial ridge and a pair of vestigial basal lugs, decorated with a panel of scrolling foliage within a strapwork frame on each side at the base, faceted socket, on a later wooden haft, 95.0 cm head

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.