IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18986
accession number:	M.15-1947

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 11 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Rapier. Large, well-formed button-shaped pommel with a prominent tang-button. Knuckle-guard and long straight quillons of circular section, all neatly chiselled with a spiralling ribbon pattern. The knuckle-guard terminates against the side of the pommel with a broad, flat button. Similar terminals are at each end of the quillons. There is a very wide, strongly shaped cusped ecusson, deeply chiselled with a springing and scrolling floral design. There is a pair of branches enclosed within the deep spherical cup-guard. This is rimmed with a roped border, below which the entire cup is chiselled à jour with the customary scrolling floral patterns common to most of these cup-hilt rapiers of Spanish fashion. In the case, the scrolls of foliage enclose apparent thistle-heads. The garda polvo, generally an exquisitely chiselled plate, is here merely a flat iron disc bolted on to the ends of the branches. At the bottom of the cup, on the outside is a circular panel (through the centre of which the blade joins) with a ribbon design incorporating the legend LAURENTIUS PALUMBO DE NAPOLI FECIT. The bottom of the cup, just above this panel is broken away, showing the edge ? replaced garda polvo. Blade of multiple section; diamond from the joint to halfway up, turning there to flat hexagonal. There is a short, narrow fuller on each side occupying 15.4 cm (6") of the flat of the blade, which above turns to a flat section. Strong ricasso, its lower half showing below the cup-guard. There is a maker's mark stamped on one side.  Grooved blade inscribed 'I.N.R.I. & Maria'.
title:	rapier

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from the Stead Collection, October 18th 1947


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18986





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1650 - 1660
creation date earliest:	1650
creation date latest:	1660
culture:	17th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Palumbo, Onofrio

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 118.1



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