Description
Knife with engraved and partially gilded iron blade. On the blade: landscape and foliage decoration, inscription Syor. angiola.caterina.capponi, sliced shield sable over silver with crest crown; wooden handle carved with a female head at the end. Italy, 17th century Length: 39.5 cm Collection label Pedestal Provenance : former Henri-René d'Allemagne collection (1863 - 1950) and by descent. The arms engraved on the blade are those of the Capponi family Capponi family, originally from Florence in the 14th century. This family served the interests of the Florentine Republic throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as the Medici clan. A branch established itself in Lyon in the 16th century, and was one of the city's leading bankers. Catherine Angelique de Capponi (1650 - 1686), Baroness de Feugerolles, was the last French last representative of the name in France. She married Pierre Hector de Charpin des Halles, comte de Souzy, on February 16, 1676. This knife may have belonged to her.
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Knife with engraved and partially gilded iron blade. On the blade: landscape and foliage decoration, inscription Syor. angiola.caterina.capponi, sliced shield sable over silver with crest crown; wooden handle carved with a female head at the end. Italy, 17th century Length: 39.5 cm Collection label Pedestal Provenance : former Henri-René d'Allemagne collection (1863 - 1950) and by descent. The arms engraved on the blade are those of the Capponi family Capponi family, originally from Florence in the 14th century. This family served the interests of the Florentine Republic throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as the Medici clan. A branch established itself in Lyon in the 16th century, and was one of the city's leading bankers. Catherine Angelique de Capponi (1650 - 1686), Baroness de Feugerolles, was the last French last representative of the name in France. She married Pierre Hector de Charpin des Halles, comte de Souzy, on February 16, 1676. This knife may have belonged to her.
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