Ⓦ AN ENGLISH BASKET-HILTED 'MORTUARY' SWORD, MID-17TH CENTURY

Ⓦ AN ENGLISH BASKET-HILTED 'MORTUARY' SWORD, MID-17TH CENTURY

with broad double-edged blade inlaid with a running wolf mark in latten on one face and formed with a broad fuller framed by a pair of slender fullers on each face, rectangular ricasso with a pair of additional grooves, iron basket-guard of characteristic form (the outer bars expertly restored), including guard chiselled with portrait masks on ovals carried by scrolling foliage on each side and beneath the knuckle-guard, scrolling vestigial quillon, and near spherical pommel decorated en suite, and spirally fluted wooden grip

84.8 cm; 33 3/8 in blade

Property from the David Jeffcoat Collection (1945-2020)

Part proceeds to benefit The Wallace Collection