
Hunting Sword, ca. 1740–50
Ivory grip attributed to Joseph Deutschmann (1717–1787)
German (possibly Munich)
Steel, silver-gilt, ivory, leatherThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
Similar sword grips of ivory, carved with fanciful Rococo ornament of shells and waves and attributed to Deutschmann, are recorded as being in the prince-elector of Bavaria’s armory in the 1740s.
(via tenebrum)