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Pair of white Paris porcelain bowls with gilt highlights.
The circular bowls are openwork with a basketweave pattern. The base and baluster-shaped foot are decorated with green bands, fillets, and floral motifs. Each foot bears delicate, hand-painted polychrome coats of arms of alliances beneath a viscount's coronet: Azure, a mount of six hillocks argent, a chief or charged with three mullets azure on the dexter side and gules, a bend or on the sinister side.
Dimensions:
• Height: 22 cm
• Diameter: 21 cm
Napoleon III period
Condition report: Good condition. Some age-related wear to the gilding. A star-shaped crack on one of the bowls near the metal attachment, likely original and not affecting the bowl's structure.
These are the combined coats of arms of Maurice de Bernard de Saint-Jean, Viscount of Saint-Jean, and Marie-Alexandrine de Lentilhac, whose descendants would later take the name Bernard de Saint-Jean de Lentilhac.
The Bernard de Saint-Jean family, originating from Languedoc, includes among its members capitouls (municipal magistrates) of Toulouse, councilors of the Parliament of Toulouse, and lieutenants of the Marshals of France.
Marie-Alexandrine de Lentilhac was the daughter of Louis-Victor, Marquis de Lentilhac, Knight of the Legion of Honor and of the Order of Saint Ferdinand of Spain, and a royalist deputy for the Lot department.
This elegant pair of cups was likely a gift given to the couple on the occasion of their marriage on November 15, 1855.
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