FINE COURT SWORD.
Poliglazed steel frame with diamond studded decoration, adorned with eight Wedgwood jasperware medallions depicting Antique-style figures.
Urn-shaped pommel. Fusée, donkey-step hilt, twisted quillon, day shell decorated with flowers, diamond-shaped bolted rosaries, enriched with Wedgwood medallions. Triangular blade, engraved, gilded and blued on one half, decorated with figures, sun, foliage, flowers and a millstone sun, with five gutters towards the bottom. Beige chagrin scabbard with three cut-out, line-decorated iron fittings.
Scabbard signed "Thos Gray Sackville Strt".
(Scabbard leather, strap and bolt later than model).
The old shagreen-covered scabbard is included.
B.E. Great Britain. Consulat-Empire period.
Thomas GRAY, active in London from 1787 to 1815.
Provenance :
- Sale Saint Dié des Vosges, January 24, 1999, expert Jean-Claude Dey.
Related works:
- A closely related sword by Thomas Gray, without medallions, in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum (No. 26.145.307)
- A closely related sword by Matthew Bouton, with wedgewood cameos, in the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection (Inv. No. 1991-788)
Historical background:
The Journal of The Society of Jewellery Historians, 2022, available on the Internet, contains a very important and comprehensive study of Thomas Gray's work.
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