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Small porcelain dish with a coat-of-arms design for the Fren…
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Small porcelain dish with a coat-of-arms design for the Fren…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €2,500
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Description
Small porcelain dish with a coat-of-arms design for the French market (Montmorency-Laval), China. Qianlong period (1736–1795), circa 1755 – The dish is decorated in ‘Famille Rose’ enamels, with two gold borders on the cavetto and the rim, and in the centre the coat of arms of the Montmorency-Laval family, Or, a cross Gules, charged with five shells Argent (here Azure) and flanked by sixteen alerions Azure. Dimensions: 25 cm. Very good condition.
Joseph-Auguste de Montmorency-Laval (1714–1783) belonged to
the Laval-Tartigny branch of the ancient House of Montmorency.
The son of Gabriel de Laval, Count of Laval, and his second wife
Adélaïde de Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure, he held the titles of
Count and later Marquis of Montmorency and pursued a
military career, rising to the rank of Mestre de Camp. In 1747, he married
Marie-Louise-Angélique de Barberin de Reignac, widow of Charles-
François de Campet, Count of Saujon. In the early 1750s,
Joseph-Auguste de Montmorency-Laval served as syndic
of the French East India Company, representing in that capacity the
interests of its shareholders. His involvement with the Company is
particularly evident in 1752 from his correspondence with Joseph-
François Dupleix, Governor-General of the French settlements in
India, to whom he expressed his support.
In 1758, Joseph-Auguste de Montmorency-Laval travelled
personally to India, where he took part in the campaign led
by the Count of Lally-Tollendal against the British settlements.
Whilst in southern India, he followed the military operations conducted
from Pondicherry, notably against Fort Saint-David, and then during
the Tanjore expedition, before returning to France. He thus found himself
directly involved in the political, commercial and colonial networks
linking France to Asia in the mid-18th century.
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Lot description modified on 10/13/2026 at 6:07 PM
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