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DOI Artikel:Clephan, Robert Coltman: The Wallace Collection of Arms and Armour, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.37714#0206
Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde.
III. Band.
190
comprising specimens ofltalian, German and Spanish
make, besides a few French. Most of the leading
types are represented; they are almost all richly
ornamented; many of the blades being inscribed
with legends and makers’ marks, among which occur
those of Antonio Piccinino, Laurentius Palumbo,
the ITernandes, Tornas de Aiala, Clemens Wirsberg,
Johannes Happe, Wilhelm and Johannes Tesche-
The swords comprise Zweihänders, bastards, lans-
quenet, broad and small swords. No. 281 is by
Klemens Horn of Solingen. No. 340 bears a por-
trait ofDuke Frederick of Saxony, inscribed on the
pommel (Knauf), which is of gun metal and gilt.
No. 654 in Case VI is a falchion, bearing the
arms of the Medicis; the pommel, in bronze gilt, is
fashioned as a lion’s head; and the grip (Griffe) is
of agate; the steel quillons curve counterwise, lion
masks decorating the extremeties; the blade, 24
inches long is back-edged and grooved. A scimitar
in Case VIII, No. 789, bears the legend EDWARDVS
PRINSANGLIAE rudely inscribed, and the running
wolf of Solingen. The blade would appear to date
in the seventeenth Century, but the liilt is probably
older. The inscription of this legend was probably
not intended to deceive, but may rather be regardecl
as a motto. There are numerous instances of
similar legends on sword blades, and notably on
those forged at Solingen in the seventeenth Century.
The liilt ofNo.670, in Case 6, closely resembles
the celebrated example in the Armeria Reale, at Turin,
byDonatello; (Fig. 7) of which it is doubtless a copy.
The pommel is nearly circular, at the head is a
figure of a shell, corresponding with one similar at
the base. The curved outlines of the sides of the
pommel are formed of dolphins. A Medusa head
occupies the centre, supported 011 each side by
Amorini; the quillons, which spring from a central
block with smaller side wings, are straight. The
blade, now in the hilt, tapers towards the point —-
it is 30 inches long, by 2 ’/2 inches across the base,
and is inscribed with the motto and insignia of
the garter. The style of decoration on the reverse
side, and the lettering of the motto, would imply
a later date than the type of the beautiful hilt.
The are many highly interesting swords in this room,
but I cannot dwell on more of them. . Fig. VII
affords an illustration of the Donatello hilt.
Among the daggers are some of the lands-
knecht, and main-gauche (Parierdolch) types, some
very richly ornamented. The cinquedeas2) are
especially beautiful. No. 685 is described in the
catalogue as a kidney dagger. This is the „ballok-
knyf" of English medieval records; for instance in
Testamenta Eboracensis, 1438, in the will of a
certain Roger Gray, we find the item „Unum dagar
ballokhefted“; and it not infrequently appears on
brasses and effiigies both at home and abroad.
Case No. 6 contains some finely embossed
casques of classic form. Of these, No. 646 is
perhaps the most noteworthy, by reason of the
freedom and beauty of the design. It is in the
form of a grotesque head, finishing in front with
the moustachios.
There are about a dozen rondaches and other
sliields in this room of Italian, German and P'rench
Fig. 7.
workmanship. Among the miscellaneous objects are
some highly decorated wheellock (Radschloss) har-
quebusses, and other handguns. The pistols (Faust-
rohre) are numerous and comprehensive. Among
the makers’ names are Erttel, Dresden; Lazarino
Cominazzo; Geo. Batta Franzzino; Chasteau, Paris;
Cavio Fondrino, Brescia; Poinsin; Antonio Venazolo;
Fait a Mourgues par la Fonteyne Muentain; La
Roche, Paris; Stefano Scioli; Gironieno Mutto.
Part III will follow in our next issue.
2) The cinquedea mentioned by Garzoni, whose book
was first published about 1560, was formerly known among
connoisseurs as the langue de bceuf (Ochsenzunge), but
according to an anonymus MS. of 1446—1448, this narne was
applied to a spear-head.
III. Band.
190
comprising specimens ofltalian, German and Spanish
make, besides a few French. Most of the leading
types are represented; they are almost all richly
ornamented; many of the blades being inscribed
with legends and makers’ marks, among which occur
those of Antonio Piccinino, Laurentius Palumbo,
the ITernandes, Tornas de Aiala, Clemens Wirsberg,
Johannes Happe, Wilhelm and Johannes Tesche-
The swords comprise Zweihänders, bastards, lans-
quenet, broad and small swords. No. 281 is by
Klemens Horn of Solingen. No. 340 bears a por-
trait ofDuke Frederick of Saxony, inscribed on the
pommel (Knauf), which is of gun metal and gilt.
No. 654 in Case VI is a falchion, bearing the
arms of the Medicis; the pommel, in bronze gilt, is
fashioned as a lion’s head; and the grip (Griffe) is
of agate; the steel quillons curve counterwise, lion
masks decorating the extremeties; the blade, 24
inches long is back-edged and grooved. A scimitar
in Case VIII, No. 789, bears the legend EDWARDVS
PRINSANGLIAE rudely inscribed, and the running
wolf of Solingen. The blade would appear to date
in the seventeenth Century, but the liilt is probably
older. The inscription of this legend was probably
not intended to deceive, but may rather be regardecl
as a motto. There are numerous instances of
similar legends on sword blades, and notably on
those forged at Solingen in the seventeenth Century.
The liilt ofNo.670, in Case 6, closely resembles
the celebrated example in the Armeria Reale, at Turin,
byDonatello; (Fig. 7) of which it is doubtless a copy.
The pommel is nearly circular, at the head is a
figure of a shell, corresponding with one similar at
the base. The curved outlines of the sides of the
pommel are formed of dolphins. A Medusa head
occupies the centre, supported 011 each side by
Amorini; the quillons, which spring from a central
block with smaller side wings, are straight. The
blade, now in the hilt, tapers towards the point —-
it is 30 inches long, by 2 ’/2 inches across the base,
and is inscribed with the motto and insignia of
the garter. The style of decoration on the reverse
side, and the lettering of the motto, would imply
a later date than the type of the beautiful hilt.
The are many highly interesting swords in this room,
but I cannot dwell on more of them. . Fig. VII
affords an illustration of the Donatello hilt.
Among the daggers are some of the lands-
knecht, and main-gauche (Parierdolch) types, some
very richly ornamented. The cinquedeas2) are
especially beautiful. No. 685 is described in the
catalogue as a kidney dagger. This is the „ballok-
knyf" of English medieval records; for instance in
Testamenta Eboracensis, 1438, in the will of a
certain Roger Gray, we find the item „Unum dagar
ballokhefted“; and it not infrequently appears on
brasses and effiigies both at home and abroad.
Case No. 6 contains some finely embossed
casques of classic form. Of these, No. 646 is
perhaps the most noteworthy, by reason of the
freedom and beauty of the design. It is in the
form of a grotesque head, finishing in front with
the moustachios.
There are about a dozen rondaches and other
sliields in this room of Italian, German and P'rench
Fig. 7.
workmanship. Among the miscellaneous objects are
some highly decorated wheellock (Radschloss) har-
quebusses, and other handguns. The pistols (Faust-
rohre) are numerous and comprehensive. Among
the makers’ names are Erttel, Dresden; Lazarino
Cominazzo; Geo. Batta Franzzino; Chasteau, Paris;
Cavio Fondrino, Brescia; Poinsin; Antonio Venazolo;
Fait a Mourgues par la Fonteyne Muentain; La
Roche, Paris; Stefano Scioli; Gironieno Mutto.
Part III will follow in our next issue.
2) The cinquedea mentioned by Garzoni, whose book
was first published about 1560, was formerly known among
connoisseurs as the langue de bceuf (Ochsenzunge), but
according to an anonymus MS. of 1446—1448, this narne was
applied to a spear-head.