Another Holbein sketch from the from the same [~1537] 'Five Designs for Dagger Hilts and Pommels' series in which he has shaped the pommels and guards of these highly-finished designs from a variety of motifs in his repertoire, fitting grotesque heads, musicians, acanthus leaves, scaly tentacles and rams’ horns with flowing ease into the required forms of the dagger hilts. [source]