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Cup-Hilted Rapier

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metal cup-hilted rapier with a bowl-shaped guard and a twisted metal quillon; slender grip wrapped with wire; spherical finial; blade with a diamond-shaped cross-section and a single fuller on each side near the forte; long, slender, white blade; decorative engravings on the hilt. The cup-hilted rapier, Cup-Hilted Rapier, by an unknown artist.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1650
Medium:
Steel
Culture:
Italian
Dimensions:
446 × 624 px
Museum record:
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