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Italian, second half of the XVIth century. Ex collection: Spitzer

This mace may have belonged to Henri II of France. Probably Spanish, and damascened by Diego de Zayas, second quarter of the XVIth century. Ex Dino Collection. Metropolitan Museum, New York

Little more can be said about the war mace than what we have already written in dealing with those of the previous century. Of the highly enriched XVIth century type there is a very remarkable example in the Metropolitan Museum of New York (Fig. 1398). In the case of this mace, which is Spanish, or at least enriched by the Spanish damascener, Diego de Zayas, it will be noted that the flanges that constitute its head are somewhat more fanciful in contour than those seen on the earlier specimens. The haft is partly hexagonal;