1592999394000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-18972 1747160051111 1714400455000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-18972 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18972 c8182786-9ff5-3476-a9f2-572a1e0cd16e 7 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 reference term-40316 adlib-term-40316 dff6aeb3-ad46-3b04-945d-46713624229f latten Inlay Length cm 104.5 Blade Length cm 26.3 Quillons Decoration reference term-109057 adlib-term-109057 daa6a12c-28f6-35e1-b6c0-8f22bc8b9452 chiselled reference term-27271 adlib-term-27271 4009cd72-13ce-395c-b55a-a9440a480203 inlaying Sword sword, cast, with chiselled decoration and inlaid decoration of latten reference term-26699 adlib-term-26699 a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8 casting (process) reference term-107622 adlib-term-107622 523e46be-6c51-3455-8391-3ea334aab2f0 flowers Applied Arts Button-shaped pommel, with tall tang-button with collar. Chiselled with scrolls. Knuckle-guard of circular section, chiselled with spiral fluting, swelling towards the lower curve and terminating against the side of the pommel with a little flat umbrella-shaped hoop, long, straight quillons of the same form as the knuckle-guard; wire-bound grip with a longitudinal plate along each of its four faces. Turks' heads at top and bottom. Long pointed ecusson, chiselled en suite with the pommel. Deep cup-guard, the upper rim strongly turned over outwards (a rompepuntas). This rompepuntas is chiselled with running scrolls pierced à jour. The cup itself is chiselled with conventional scrolls and loops, rather poorly executed. There is a heavy garda polvo (dust-guard) inside the cup, chiselled en suite with the rompepuntas. Long narrow blade of flat hexagonal section with a fuller pressed à jour at the forte which is flanked by little engraved flowers and tendrils. These extend nearly half-way along the blade, some of them below the fuller still retaining this original latten inlay. Norman hilt type 101. HEN.M.235-1933 1 accession number HEN.M.235-1933 18972 priref 18972 old object number B260 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18972 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18972 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum J.S. Henderson reference agent-154334 adlib-agent-154334 28c0c8e2-3ec7-3d3a-9e13-b60fa3a6b434 Henderson, James Stewart 1933 1933 1933-03-16 bequeathed bequest no. B260 1640 1640 1640 circa 1640 1660 1 1660 1660 1660 maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown The semi-spherical guard of this type of sword has given rise to the name 'cup-hilted'. This example has intricately chiselled and pierced decoration characteristic of many of this type of hilt and especially of those made in north Italy, particularly in Brescia. reference term-113347 adlib-term-113347 b3865e14-c2dc-3722-935d-b7697edeab4e 17th Century, Mid reference term-106658 adlib-term-106658 14639b29-abe6-3c54-bef7-f4f7ab39863a literal Spain Spain country Spain reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Length cm 124.5 reference term-87077 adlib-term-87077 542beac5-6e9e-31e7-bfb5-70809dc3cf54 rapier history note Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum plant reference term-107622 adlib-term-107622 523e46be-6c51-3455-8391-3ea334aab2f0 flowers plant reference term-108878 adlib-term-108878 4de7556b-eef6-3321-9f79-2d5261fbd7e9 tendrils literal flowers flowers literal tendrils tendrils

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