Description
BRACE OF CONTINENTAL DAGGERS
19TH CENTURY
with carved ivory hilts, both carved with interlace foliate decoration, coats of arms in a cartouche surmounted by a crown and with grotesque masks and a crowned portrait head with moustache, lozenge section blades, one with deep ricasso and no fuller, the other with a narrow lozenge section blade with narrow central fuller for three quarters of the length, both with threaded pommels with rosettes on top, one has acanthus decoration (and large section missing) the other with oval patera with star burst decoration, the quillions on both daggers with scrolls at the terminals and acanthus decoration (2)
15in. (38.1cm) and 14in. (35cm) long