Covered sugar bowl in porcelain with armorial decoration for - Lot 72

Covered sugar bowl in porcelain with armorial decoration for the French market (Bretagne, Le Prestre de Chateaugiron - Floyd de Tréguibé). China. Qianlong period (1736- 1795), circa 1770/1775 Provenance: Eymery & Cie Decorated in famille rose enamels, of polylobed form, with floral decoration and lattice frieze. In the center, the arms of the Le Prestre de Chateaugiron alliance, Gules, three ermines escutcheons (here Argent), a bordure engrailed Or, and Floyd de Tréguibé, Argent, a chevron Sable, between three crows Sable; set on a ducal mantle, supported by ermines, and stamped with a black velvet mortar. Auguste-Félicité Le Prestre de Chateaugiron (1728-1782) was a grandson of President de Lézonnet and the second son of President de Chateaugiron, Jacques-René Le Prestre, and Louise-Jeanne de Robien. He belonged to a group of Brittany's leading parliamentary families in the first half of the 18th century, the Le Prestre family, along with the Robien, Langle, Boisgelin and La Briffe d'Amilly families. The youngest of a prestigious line of wealthy, devout and well-disposed royalty, distinguished in the sword under the Dukes of Brittany and then the Kings of France, he was a councillor at the France, he was a councillor at the Parlement de Bretagne (1749- 1763), avocat général (1753-1771), superintendent of the household of Madame la Dauphine (1770), councillor at the Parlement de Paris, président à mortier at the Parlement de Bretagne (1771), conseiller du roi en ses conseils, and président du Grand conseil (1774). In 1761, he married Jeanne-Charlotte Floyd de Tréguibé, from a noble house of England established in Brittany in the 17th century. He distinguished himself in the La Chalotais affair, also known as the Affaire de Bretagne (1764-1768), where, as avocat général, he sided with the Duc d'Aiguillon, Governor of Brittany, much to the dismay of the parliamentary fronde. He left Brittany for Paris. The decor of this commission is based on that of the first Le Prestre commission, that of the commission of the Duc d'Aiguillon (1720-1788) and that of Monseigneur de Beaumont du Repaire (1703-1755), these three commissions having probably been placed at the same time in Brittany around 1760. Size: 15 cm x 7 cm