Milanese punch wheel

circular in shape, in sturdy iron sheet worked to form a wide but low domed relief in the central area, the turned and ribbed edge bearing along its profile nineteen holes for the rivets of the farsata (missing); & nbsp; in the center a sword-breaking hook secured by a pair of iron rivets riveted on the reverse, inscribed in a pair of concentric sword-breaking circles, supported and detached from the surface of the shield by means of sturdy cylindrical iron turrets & nbsp; riveted to the reverse; visually the three sectors of the plate are marked by sober incisions of concentric lines; on the reverse & nbsp; applied in the center through two pairs of rivets sturdy iron handle; & nbsp; of northern Italian manufacture, datable to the 17th century. & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; Diameter cm & nbsp; 36.5 & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;

Provenance: Pitti Auction House, Auction of 16 December 1994, lot 426. & nbsp; & nbsp;