Court Sword Of The Arenberg Family Germany, Former Monarchy, Eighteenth Century

COURT SWORD of the ARENBERG FAMILY Germany, Former Monarchy, 18th century
Iron, steel and gold
Total length : 98,5 ; Blade length : 80 cm 

Steel frame with bas-relief decoration in blackened steel on a gold background, guard branch with foliage corollas, cruise decorated with a trophy of arms, donkey step and quillon ending in an acanthus leaf in blackened steel. Spherical pommel featuring an antique helmet and trophies of arms, filigree silver spindle, braided silver ferrules. Bivalve keyboard decorated with trophies of arms, musical instruments, helmets empanelled in the antique style. 
Blade with a colichemarde, the heel richly decorated with golden scrolls on a blued background which is reversed on the distal part in a blued ornamentation on a golden background. Original scarlet cloth tie, wooden scabbard covered with cream calfskin, steel fittings with gold background decorated with foliage in blackened steel. 

Provenance : Arenberg family. 

N°17 of the exhibition "THE ART OF THE BLADE
Text and photos © FCP CORIDON

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