Lot 593
16TH CENTURY STYLE ETCHED PARADE GLAIVE
19TH/20TH CENTURY
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 25 January 2017 at 11:00 GMT
£1,000
Description
with massive recurved head, shaped cusped rear pean, and terminal spike of square section, etched with scrolling leafy tendrils and a figure in traditional garb, on a stippled ground, spurious date 1524, mounted on a wooden haft with tassel; together with an ETCHED 16TH CENTURY STYLE HALBERD, late 19th/20th century, with openwork head and tapering terminal spike, etched with interlace designs, scrolling foliage and monsters against a stippled ground, on a wooden haft (2)
Dimensions
260cm and 255cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Formerly at Glentruim and the Macpherson family, by descent