FRANCE, Restoration period - Lot 163

FRANCE, Restoration period Officer's sword. Chased and gilded bronze hilt with a branch decorated with foliage and dolphin attachment, cruise with a stylized lion's head curved quillon, keyboard with radiating laurel wreath decoration centered on a king's head or stylized flowers, and topped with laurel scrolls and falls, small counter-keyboard decorated with an acanthus finial. Closed crown pommel decorated with the keyboard. Spindle with gadrooned white mother-of-pearl plates. Spindle and ferrule profiles adorned with leaf friezes. Triangular blade engraved with foliage and trophies of arms, gilded and blued in thirds. Heel monogrammed "S.H.F.". Blade length: 82 cm - Total length: 96.5 cm. Without scabbard. Wear, a few scratches and minor knocks, notably to the blade; a few chips to the plates. The initials on the heel are usually attributed to the firm of Samuel HOPPE Frères ou Fils, active in Solingen during the 19th century. Provenance : - Maître Osenat, Fontainebleau, June 15, 2014, n° 224. - Descended from Maréchal Macdonald, then the Dukes of Massa.