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- Parrying dagger
- Diego de Cuenca
- Cuenca or Toledo, Spain
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- Date: c. 1675
probably c. 1675 (hilt)
probably later than c.1675 (blade) - Medium: Steel and copper, chiselled, chased, etched and engraved
- Length: 48.1 cm
- Width: 1.7 cm
- Weight: 0.62 kg
- Inv: A826
- Location: Arms and Armour III
- Date: c. 1675
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- Parrying dagger, of ‘main gauche’ type, composed of a flattened spherical pommel, with button, chiselled with scrolled foliage in low relief; copper wire-bound grip; straight guard, spirally fluted and chased, ending in rosette-shaped knobs; triangular knuckle-guard (screwed to the guard), pierced and chiselled with scrolled foliage and berries or grapes; the edges recurved and fluted; narrow blade of oblong section towards the hilt, changing to flattened diamond section half-way to the point; the lower part has notched edges, and is decorated with scrolled foliage; the foible is engraved on one side, and on the other inscribed:
DIDACVS ACVENCA FACIEBAT (an erasure following)
[DIDACVS A CVENCA FACIEBAT]
HOMNI AVINCID AMOR (an erasure following)
[OMNIA VINCIT AMOR]
The ricasso has an oval depression on the inner side for placement of the thumb and the outer etched with foliage; between the ricasso and the blade are two semi-circular sword-catching notches.
Hilt probably about 1675; blade Spanish (Cuenca or Toledo), probably later.
L' Art Ancien, IV, no. 567.
Provenance: Frédéric Spitzer.
The maker's name would translate as Diego de Cuenca. There was a Juan de Cuenca working at Valencia in 1603, and a Francisco de Cuenca at Madrid in 1613. The erasure in the first line of the inscription probably removed a date. It does not occur in the second half of the inscription.
- Parrying dagger, of ‘main gauche’ type, composed of a flattened spherical pommel, with button, chiselled with scrolled foliage in low relief; copper wire-bound grip; straight guard, spirally fluted and chased, ending in rosette-shaped knobs; triangular knuckle-guard (screwed to the guard), pierced and chiselled with scrolled foliage and berries or grapes; the edges recurved and fluted; narrow blade of oblong section towards the hilt, changing to flattened diamond section half-way to the point; the lower part has notched edges, and is decorated with scrolled foliage; the foible is engraved on one side, and on the other inscribed: