Luxurious DAGUE of venerie XVIIIth century Mounting... Lot 72

Luxurious DAGUE of venerie XVIIIth century Mounting in bronze and stag horn. Oval openwork cap with vegetal decoration. Chiseled joint bow decorated with a hunter wearing a tricorn with a stick in the right hand, the left hand rests on a dagger that he wears at the belt. Body knot with a leaping lion motif, quillon in the extension with a zoomorphic head. The ferrule is decorated with an openwork design following the body knot. Round concave keyboard decorated with a hunting scene, featuring a deer between the pack of dogs and the rider. Spindle in section of a stag horn. Signed blade with a slightly curved throat with hunting decoration of a boar in race. Wooden scabbard covered with leather with two finely chiseled trimmings, heart-shaped cap button under the housing of the batards. Chiseled cap with vegetal decoration, cap with decoration of a fox in race. Complete with its two brass cofferdams and riveted black horn plates. Good condition, total length Fine German work from the second half of the 18th century