Hunting Sword by Emanuel Pioté, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor
Rogers Fund, 1948
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Steel, gold, enamel, agate, wood, leather
This richly decorated sword was made for one of the counts
Hoyos-Sprinzenstein. His enameled coat of arms surmounts the lion-headed
pommel. The scabbard locket is inscribed “Pioté et Köchert,” the
leading Viennese jewelers of the nineteenth century.