SABRE DE LUXE D'OFFICIER DE CAVALERIE LÉGÈRE Monture en laiton doré et ébè

LUXURY LIGHT CAVALRY OFFICER'S SABRE Gilt brass and ebony mount. Stock-shaped cap with lion's head, palmette and scales, small clover-shaped nail on spider's web background.
Squared ebony buttstock. Rectangular body knot featuring a glory on one side and two sphinxes back to back on the other.
The joint arch with its laurel leaf motif and the curved quillon with its en suite decoration ending in a flower bud stand out. Half-oreillon cross decorated with a palmette on one side and an antique-style sheathed bust on a background of trophies of arms. Curved blade with hollow sides, gilded, engraved and one-third blued.
Scabbard with two gilded brass suspension rings and four cartouches in high relief on a dotted amati background.
They represent a Roman soldier under an imperial eagle and thunderbolt, the god Poseidon, Hercules and Minerva.
All decorated with geometric friezes.
End decorated with palms and arrows, openwork stinger.
France, Consulate / Empire period.
Total length: 98.5 cm

PROVENANCE
- Roger de Montégudet Collection (1880 - 1925)
- By descent to the present day.