English Flintlock Pistol

Spectacular luxury pistol of English manufacture for the Orient.
Safety lock engraved and inlaid with gold foliage and trophy motifs, signed H. JAMES. Swan-neck hammer. Bassinet with spark arrestor and gilt back. Battery with turnbacks. Battery with roller.
Barrel with two registers with sides, then round. Profusely damascened in silver with decorations of flowers and trophies, displaying the Islamic crescent, for the first part, then with a floral ribbon motif. Gilded sight grain.
Dark walnut frame, with long barrel, magnificently damascened with silver wire and inlaid with engraved silver plates. Gilded thumbpiece. Barrel mount with keys. Gilt bronze cap with long ears carved with trophies. Trigger guard in half-Charolais, carved and gilded, following at its end the shape of the Islamic crescent. Whalebone wand with silver tip.
This weapon can be dated to the end of the Empire. It is in perfect condition.