A rare Venetian polaxe for the foot tournament (ascia da fante), first quarter of the 16th century. The head of characteristic two-part construction secured centrally by a transverse bolt with short pyramidal heads, with sharply tapering hollow-triangular spike on a moulded two-stage neck, the latter extending to form a pair of straps each retained by six nails and fitted over the common neck of the axe-blade and pean, the juncture impaled by the transverse bolt, with symmetrical axe-blade with convex edge, strongly cusped back edges, a pierced q, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available
Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available
Size: 923px × 5270px
Location:
Photo credit: © INTERFOTO / History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -part, -stage, 16th, ages, ascia, axe-blade, bolt, centrally, century., characteristic, common, construction, convex, cusped, cut, diamond-pointed, edge, edges, extending, face, fitted, foot, form, head, heads, hollow-triangular, impaled, inlaid, juncture, latten, leaping, maker’, mark, middle, moulded, nails, neck, pair, pean, pierced, polaxe, pyramidal, quarter, quatrefoil, rare, rectangular, retained, rusticated, secured, sharply, short, spike, stag, straps, strongly, symmetrical, tapering, tournament, transverse, triangular, venetian
