Cup-Hilted Rapier
Cleveland Museum of Art

Cup-Hilted Rapier

c. 1650

Pierced and chiseled steel;
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The guard is richly decorated with chiseled and pierced arabesques, an ornamental design consisting of intertwined flowing lines.

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