Pair of flintlock pistols with the Arms of Jean Comte du Barry France -1775

Pair of flintlock PISTOLS with the Arms of Jean Comte du Barry
France -1775
Steel, silver and wood
Total length : 33,5 cm - Barrel length : 15 cm

Barrel with sides then round, ribboned with a garland of flowers and gold foliage and gilded with the thunder of a sun and attributes. Silver barley grain sight.
Turntable engraved with bundle of arms and scrolls on a gold background and signed:
"THIOLLIERE brothers". Swan-necked dog, jaw, bassoon and bassoon covers decorated in suite.
Silver counterplate, decorated with half round hump, bundle of arms and foliage on a gold background. Silver trigger guard, decorated in suite. Silver cap, richly decorated in suite, with nail in half round of bump of beam of weapons.
Moulded and finely carved frame with flowers and foliage. Chased silver rod holder. Silver thumbpiece on gold background with the Arms of Jean Count du Barry, brother-in-law of the Countess du Barry, slightly scratched under the Revolution.
Rod in fanon with silver tip.

France, Saint-Etienne, Thiollières Jacques, circa 1775.


Provenance:
- Collection Jeanne and Robert-Jean CHARLES
- Sale ADER TAJAN, Paris Drouot of Thursday 13 May 1993

Jean-Baptiste comte du Barry, son of Antoine Dubarry, captain in the regiment of Isle-de-France, married in 1722 to Marguerite-Catherine-Cécile Thérèse de La Caze. He was the lover of Jeanne Bécu, who became the Countess du Barry; he made her marry his brother Count Guillaume Dubarry so that she would become the mistress of Louis XV. As a reward for his mediation, he received the county of L'Isle-Jourdain and considerable settlements in eastern Gascony.