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SABRE D'OFFICIER VOLONTAIRE À « L'HYDRE DE LERNE »
The item was sold for 3 900 €
Fees include commission and taxes.
LERNE HYDRA" VOLUNTEER OFFICER'S SABER
Montmorency-style bronze mounting.
Long-tailed cap with ram's head.
Flat jointed bow with a branch forming the openwork shell.
In the center, a helmeted cherub chases a three-headed hydra holding a torch in one hand, the other resting on a shield marked "CONSTITUTION De La FRANCE".
A medallion inscribed "14 JUILLET FEDERATION De La France" on the other side of a banner "VIVRE LIBRE Ou MOURIR" surmounted by an empanached helmet joins the jointed arch to the openwork top. Wooden spindle with brass filigree.
Leather scabbard with two brass fittings.
France, circa 1790.
Total length with scabbard: 86 cm
"Three examples decorated with the Lernaean Hydra are known: one is in the Musée de l'armée (inv.J 738), another in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris and the last in a private collection", explains Lhoste in his book "Les sabres portés par l'armée française", see Fig. 705 and 705a. The last of these is certainly the one we are presenting here.
PROVENANCE
- Roger de Montégudet Collection (1880 - 1925)
- By descent to the present day.
Montmorency-style bronze mounting.
Long-tailed cap with ram's head.
Flat jointed bow with a branch forming the openwork shell.
In the center, a helmeted cherub chases a three-headed hydra holding a torch in one hand, the other resting on a shield marked "CONSTITUTION De La FRANCE".
A medallion inscribed "14 JUILLET FEDERATION De La France" on the other side of a banner "VIVRE LIBRE Ou MOURIR" surmounted by an empanached helmet joins the jointed arch to the openwork top. Wooden spindle with brass filigree.
Leather scabbard with two brass fittings.
France, circa 1790.
Total length with scabbard: 86 cm
"Three examples decorated with the Lernaean Hydra are known: one is in the Musée de l'armée (inv.J 738), another in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris and the last in a private collection", explains Lhoste in his book "Les sabres portés par l'armée française", see Fig. 705 and 705a. The last of these is certainly the one we are presenting here.
PROVENANCE
- Roger de Montégudet Collection (1880 - 1925)
- By descent to the present day.