Small-sword with scenes from the Old Testament, The blackened iron hilt is entirely adorned with chiseled ornaments in mainly high relief: dragon heads, human figures and hymns, the most important images of which are scenes from the Old Testament, on the hilt knob God the Father on a cloud and Lot and his daughters, on the parry block Adam and Eve in paradise and Cain and Abel, at the bottom of the riser the temptation and expulsion from paradise, on top of sending the dove with an ark with a cross on top and Noah sacrificing to God, the fist guard has the shape of a dragon, the wooden handle
Small-sword with scenes from the Old Testament, The blackened iron hilt is entirely adorned with chiseled ornaments in mainly high relief: dragon heads, human figures and hymns, the most important images of which are scenes from the Old Testament, on the hilt knob God the Father on a cloud and Lot and his daughters, on the parry block Adam and Eve in paradise and Cain and Abel, at the bottom of the riser the temptation and expulsion from paradise, on top of sending the dove with an ark with a cross on top and Noah sacrificing to God, the fist guard has the shape of a dragon, the wooden handle is wound with iron wire, probably braided grip rings are missing. The double-edged blade has an early coliseard shape and a hexagonal cross-section that ends in a diamond shape, gold vines embossed with gold on the middle blade surface., anonymous, unknown, 1640 - 1650, iron (metal), wood (plant material), gold (metal), l cm l cm × w cm w 562 gr
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