
Lot 92
An English Silver-Mounted HangerLate 17th Century, Maker's Mark Of Thomas Vicaridge
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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An English Silver-Mounted Hanger
Late 17th Century, Maker's Mark Of Thomas Vicaridge
Late 17th Century, Maker's Mark Of Thomas Vicaridge
With curved fullered blade (some pitting) double-edged towards the point, hilt comprising rear quillon with rounded terminal cast, pierced and chased with a cherub's head on a double scroll, foliate engraved quillon-block, knuckle-guard cast on each side with hounds against punched grounds, one pursuing a stag, the terminal hooked into the pommel-cap and cast, pierced and chased as a monster-head emerging from foliage, pommel-cap with a cherub's mask amid foliage in relief, and natural buckhorn grip (old repair) with silver basal ferrule
43.1 cm. blade
43.1 cm. blade
Footnotes
Provenance
Sotheby's London, Arms Armour and Militaria, 23 April 1985, lot 85
The Per T. Norheim Collection sold in these Rooms, 29 April 2010, lot 38
Thomas Vicarage (recorded 1682-1715) is the maker of a related hanger in the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. no. 937-1864). For more information see Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords..., 2001, pp. 249-250, fig. 62 and p. 276, pl. 16