Rare pair of porcelain bottle coolers with armorial decorati - Lot 60

Rare pair of porcelain bottle coolers with armorial decoration for the French market (Duc de Villeroy). China. Yongzheng period (1723-1735), circa 1730-1734 Decorated in famille rose enamels, with the arms of the Dukes of Villeroy, Azure a chevron Or between three crossbows anchored Or, all set on an ermine mantle and stamped with a ducal crown. The commission is attributed to Nicolas VI de Neufville (1663-1734), Duc de Retz, Marquis d'Alincourt and 3rd Duc de Villeroy (1730). Brigadier of the king's armies in 1693, he was lieutenant-general in Lyonnais on April 12, 1680, lieutenant-general on September 17, 1702, captain of the king's bodyguard in survivorship on January 13, 1708. He was made a knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Louis in 1701 and of the Order of the Holy Spirit Esprit on June 7, 1724. In 1716, he became the new Duc de Retz. Like the other members of his family, he exercised the almost "hereditary" function of Governor of the Lyonnais region. Lyonnais, first as a survivor on October 20, 1712, then as governor from October 21 to July 29, 1730. This rare and unpublished commission is not listed in Antoine Lebel's Armoiries françaises et suisses sur la porcelaine de Chine au XVIIIe siècle, 2009. A glass bowl and a glass cooler from this commission are known to exist in private collections. Restored cracks. Dim : 20 cm x 17 cm