A rare gilt-bronze head of a parade spontoon or partisan, carried by an officer of a state guard, Russian or Eastern European, circa 1760/1770, Cast in one piece, with relief designs of elaborate rococo scrollwork involving pierced trellis fields studded with flower heads, cast with heraldic crests differing on the respective sides and centring on figural subjects also differing on each side, one a mid-16th century armoured warrior with shield charged with an eagle, the other that of a bearded tsar or a king also armoured in the mid-16th century , Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available
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