Linstock

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a long thin pointed metal object, resembling a sword, on a decorative stand. The object is silver and slender with a sharp tip at the top; it is straight and longer than the stand. The stand has a rounded ball where the sword meets it and two decorative metal pieces on either side that are curled into scroll-like shapes. The decorative metal pieces extend downwards from the ball in a curled spiral shape. The background is a plain gray color. Title: Linstock; likely artist unidentified.