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Carried by the guard of an Elector of Bavaria. Dated 1677. K 497, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris

Carried by the personal guard of Louis XIV of France. Probably from the design of Jean Le Paultre (1618-1682) and made about the year 1680. Wallace Collection (Laking Catalogue, No. 487)

some six inches of its point. Its date is probably of the closing years of the XVIth century. The chiselled work upon the lower part of the surface is of fine quality; it is also attractive, being of a russet black colour upon a gilded ground: on one side are introduced a circular medallion containing the subject of Pyramus and Thisbe, on the other another medallion showing Apollo slaying the python. A partisan very much of the same proportions, though somewhat more graceful in its outline, is now in the collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle (Fig. 1416). It was formerly in the