A FRENCH PARTISAN FOR THE ROYAL GUARD OF KING LOUIS XIII (1601, 1614-43) with tapering flat head formed with a medial ridge, a pair of up-turned and a pair of down-turned basal lugs, stamped 'C. Gounod' on one face and with another name, probably 'Laine' (unclear) on the other, tapering faceted socket moulded at the top, stamped '10' on the reverse and with traces of an inscription including 'Trent double' on each face (rubbed), impaled by a transverse bolt with a characteristic up-turned hook finial on one side, the head etched with crowned Royal arms enclosed by the Order of St Michel and St Esprit above the letters 'LL' on one face and with the crowned arms of Navarre on the other enclosed by the same orders, on a wooden haft with iron shoe 60.0 cm; 23 5/8 in head Provenance George R. Hann, Treetops, Pennsylvania, sold Christie's, 19 May 1980, lot 62. The maker Gounod is believed to have worked in Geneva. Another partisan of this type, formerly in the Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection, is preserved in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. See von Kienbusch 1963, no. 601.
A FRENCH PARTISAN FOR THE ROYAL GUARD OF KING LOUIS XIII (1601, 1614-43) with tapering flat head formed with a medial ridge, a pair of up-turned and a pair of down-turned basal lugs, stamped 'C. Gounod' on one face and with another name, probably 'Laine' (unclear) on the other, tapering faceted socket moulded at the top, stamped '10' on the reverse and with traces of an inscription including 'Trent double' on each face (rubbed), impaled by a transverse bolt with a characteristic up-turned hook finial on one side, the head etched with crowned Royal arms enclosed by the Order of St Michel and St Esprit above the letters 'LL' on one face and with the crowned arms of Navarre on the other enclosed by the same orders, on a wooden haft with iron shoe 60.0 cm; 23 5/8 in head Provenance George R. Hann, Treetops, Pennsylvania, sold Christie's, 19 May 1980, lot 62. The maker Gounod is believed to have worked in Geneva. Another partisan of this type, formerly in the Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection, is preserved in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. See von Kienbusch 1963, no. 601.
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