Sword

1560-1580 (Renaissance) 52 5/8 in. (133.67 cm) Citation Source image

This sword was surely made for a nobleman in the honor guard of Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand at Ambras Palace (Innsbruck, Austria): an identical one has been traced to that source. The marks of the maker Diefstetter and of Bavaria, where the blade was inspected, are on the blad...

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Arsenal at Innsbruck (?); De Cosson [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Clements [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 85; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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