Morning star

Set with twenty-two square-section spikes. The head, the upper part of the haft and the grip are minutely decorated with addorsed C-shaped scrolls, filled with delicate arabesques overlaid in gold and silver; on the head are seven oval panels with borders encrusted with silver dots and containing figures representing Music, Fame, Venus and Cupid, etc., the haft with three panels of like decoration and the grip with four figures of: Mars, Hercules, Diana and Flora, chiselled in low relief.

The morning star is both a natural phenomenon and a human-made symbol. Here’s a closer look.

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Everything you think you know about the “Morning Star” and the “Evening Star” is wrong.

Morning Star: This type of mace is commonly called morning star or holy water sprinkler and was made in Milan sometime between 1560 and 1580. Constructed of punched, engraved, and russeted steel, the piece is ornamented with silver and gold hatching, a copper alloy, and is encrusted with silver beads.