1592999394000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-18925 1747160050556 1714401457000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-18925 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18925 355c9a3d-d6a5-37c1-864f-8c38add8433b 6 reference term-86575 adlib-term-86575 5649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9b weapons reference term-108941 adlib-term-108941 bda2218a-91c2-3b79-99c1-49e47cc3aff1 J.S. Henderson steel reference term-33522 adlib-term-33522 d2a924aa-f118-3a9e-b2bc-10e6f461aee6 wire reference term-32234 adlib-term-32234 96ff7097-33c1-398e-891e-22b7705b69fe wood (plant material) Grip reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Sword sword, cast, with reeded rib decoration, an etched inscription and the Royal arms of France reference term-26699 adlib-term-26699 a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8 casting (process) Decoration reference term-99807 adlib-term-99807 6a23afb4-3d15-3ece-a1f8-29cd185df9ca etching Pommel And Hilt reference term-5001 adlib-term-5001 3a88807f-9936-3271-9cbd-bdedd2b31694 ribbing reference term-48502 adlib-term-48502 8f872a4d-277f-3ec2-a092-96f700d958b7 arms Applied Arts Long, facetted pear-shaped pommel with strong button and knobbed collars. Grip of wood bound with steel wire with turks' heads at top and bottom. Knuckle-guards of flat ribbon section widening at the midpoint where it is divided by an elongated oval motif between small zig-zag dividers. Below this division, a loop-guard of the same section and form rims across the outside of the hilt to join the root of the hilt quillon. Within this loop is a downturned oval shell-guard. Quillons of flat section very sharply turned towards the blade and finished in spirals. There is a thumb-ring at the back of the hilt, the lower end of which spreads out into a diamond-shaped plate decorated on its outer edges with scrolls. The whole of the outside of this hilt is decorated with longitudinal reeded ribs, with a zig-zag running down the middle of each guard. The eight facets of the pommel are similarly decorated. Blade of flat diamond section, the mid-ribs flattened and the faces hollowed. On the outside, the blade bears the engraved inscription: 'Vive Le Roy' in very large letters which span the whole width of the blade. On the reverse, the lillies of France within an oval, crowned cartouche, the crown containing also some fleur-de-lis. HEN.M.211-1933 1 accession number HEN.M.211-1933 18925 priref 18925 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18925 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18925 on blade etched VIVE LE ROY reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum J.S. Henderson Bequest reference agent-154334 adlib-agent-154334 28c0c8e2-3ec7-3d3a-9e13-b60fa3a6b434 Henderson, James Stewart 1933 1933 1933-03-16 bequeathed bequest no. B84 1650 1650 CE 1650 circa 1650 1670 blade is French, c.1700, and the hilt is Dutch, c.1640s 1 1670 CE 1670 1670 blade maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown hilt maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown It was very common for swords to have blades from one country, maker or date and hilts of quite another as blades were made in a few centres around Europe and were bought and the hilt added. The blade of this sword is inscribed Vive le Roy (long live the King) Many examples of this type of hilt exist, though it is not included as a type in the Vesey Norman Typology of hilts. There are many variants, but common to all is the downturned shell-guard springing from the ecusson within the outer loop-guard. A notable and elaborate example is No. A683 in the Wallace Collection in London (1962 Catalogue, pl. 127). reference term-113347 adlib-term-113347 b3865e14-c2dc-3722-935d-b7697edeab4e 17th Century, Mid reference term-106665 adlib-term-106665 81bdeec4-f191-3840-9127-d89be6989655 literal France France country Netherlands reference term-42208 adlib-term-42208 56bdf465-22ee-3b51-a8c4-fe4a29b1ca93 sword history note Unknown before testator, Mr James Stewart Henderson, 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-1749 adlib-publication-1749 15677961-7e0c-3b15-896c-78a5119e6b1d Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour concept reference term-131416 adlib-term-131416 d030963e-02e5-3863-8faa-ebd1f1d5568c Royal arms of France plant reference term-4778 adlib-term-4778 e88d3409-86e5-3a3c-8dd7-7ba7856fbe22 fleur-de-lis literal Royal arms of France Royal arms of France literal fleur-de-lis fleur-de-lis

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