ÉPÉE DE PAIR DE FRANCE SIGNÉE « CAHIER ET MANCEAUX », modèle 1814, Restauration, règne de Louis XVIII. 21714

PAIR OF FRANCE SWORD SIGNED "CAHIER ET MANCEAUX", model 1814, Restoration, reign of Louis XVIII. Gilt bronze mount. Guard with a branch richly decorated with corollas of foliage, laurel branches, fleur-de-lis and fluted moldings. Straight cruise, quillon with palmettes, decorated in its center with a laurel wreath enclosing an "L" crowned Louis XVIII, with laurel and oak branches on either side. Short-tailed cap representing a mythological monster with palmette, corollas of foliage, acanthus leaves. Wooden handle with mother-of-pearl plates, each decorated with a gilt bronze motif representing the profile of a warrior with helmet in the antique fleur-de-lysé style surrounded by two laurel branches, the whole framed in the upper part and in the bass with a rich floral decoration with palmettes and rosettes. Side plates of the gilt bronze handle decorated with a palmette and laurel branches. Ferrule in the lower part with geometric and gadrooned moldings. Keyboard representing in relief the Arms of France framed by two cornucopias, all set on an abundant floral decoration with laurel branches, fleurons, acanthus leaves; the outer border of the keyboard represents palmettes and acanthus branches. Straight blade with hollow sides, 81 cm long, decorated on its lower third with acid etching on a gilt background with a fleur-de-lis in a wreath of laurel leaves with, in the upper and lower parts, a decoration of palmettes, rosettes and foliage; it is signed on the heel "Manufre Royale du Klingenthal / Cahier Manceaux Lafitte draftsman of the King's cabinet". Scarlet wool tie. Black patent leather scabbard with two gilt bronze fittings, the chape has a button for wearing on the belt decorated with an antique helmet, it is signed on the back "Cahier et Manceaux à Paris". Bouterolle richly decorated in relief with fleur-de-lis, palmettes, rosettes, floral decorations. France. Restoration, reign of Louis XVIII. Very good condition, high quality carving, this sword has kept all its gilding, blade in very good condition, varnish of the scabbard chipped in places but remained in its original state.