Gien Earthenware Dinner Service With Rouen Decor And Esterhazy-de Faultrier Alliance Coats Of Arms

Very rare Gien earthenware service with alliance coats of arms for the marriage of the Walsin-Esterhazy and de Faultrier families which took place in Metz in 1864. Rouen decoration in blue with a large radiating decoration with lambrequins and ironwork motifs on the entire rim. In the center are the alliance arms surmounted by the count's crown. For Count Walsin-Esterhazy the coat of arms is: "azure with a griffin crowned with gold supported by a crown of the same holding in the dexter paw a gold sword and in the sinister a rose branch of sinople flowered with 3 pieces of gules" For Mademoiselle de Faultrier the coat of arms is: "argent with a lion rampant gules, with a fess sable broaching the lion charged in the sinister with a star of the field and with a border composed of 24 pieces of gules and gold" Count Marie-Paul Walsin-Esterhazy (1836-1896)Marie-Louise de Faultrier (1842-1920)The bottom of the service is blue, very typical of this period in GienStamp on the back from 1860Ceremonial service in superb condition with a very shiny cover and shimmering colorsAn exceptional set of 86 pieces Consisting of:29 flat plates d: 25 cm15 soup plates26 dessert plates6 large dishes (2 oval - 4 round)2 raviers5 footed bowls (3 high - 2 low)1 salad bowl1 soup tureen1 sauce boata total of 86 piecesBiographies:Marie Paul WALSIN-ESTERHAZYNorn June 29, 1836 in Marseille. He was an administrative officer of the Navy from 1854 to 1860, then prefectural councilor (Orne 1860, Moselle 1862), sub-prefect of Châteaulin in 1864, of St-Marcellin in 1869, auxiliary military intendant from 1870 to 1871, sub-prefect of St-Pol in 1871, of Villeneuve-sur-Lot in 1873 then of Boulogne-sur-Mer. He was then prefect of Ain in 1874, of Tarn in 1876 and made a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1877, decorated by his brother-in-law by the Faultrier, General-Count Henri de Geslin. He was then sub-prefect, then prefect in Bordeaux in 1893 and died on October 15, 1896 in Bordeaux.Marie-Louise de FAULTRIERBorn on October 8, 1842 in Metz in Moselle. Parents: Alfred de Faultrier (Magistrate) and Jeanne Louise Pierre d'Hagondange.She married in Metz in 1864 with Count Marie Paul Walsin-Esterhazy.Marie-Louise de Faultrier died in 1920, at the age of 78.