Astonishing senior officer's or dignitary's saber by Manceau - Lot 434

Astonishing senior officer's or dignitary's saber by Manceaux in Paris, entirely in mirror-polished steel, single-branch guard with groove on the outside and openwork at the base, quillon with openwork en suite and finished with a button in the form of a gadrooned skirt, unusually shaped oval cap, crossed by an oval piece that covers the entrance to the scabbard, finely squared ebony spindle decorated with a flat, curved filigree in mirror-polished steel; damascus blade with round back and groove along the back, counter-edged, etched in thirds, gilded in the hollows and decorated with foliage, military trophies, an imperial eagle on a sphere and a lion's head, back signed in gold: "Manufacture de Klingenthal Coulaux freres"; scabbard entirely in ice-polished steel, with flat fields overhanging on each side, one bearing two trapezoidal barrel-shaped pitons, stinger adorned with gadroons; signed on one side, at the level of the first ring: "Manceaux a Paris"; length 104 cm. Late First Empire, circa 1814/1815. Very good condition.