Meeting of TEN COUVERTS, uniplat model. The spatulas... Lot 12

Meeting of TEN COUVERTS, uniplat model. The spatulas engraved with the arms of the Joly de Rosgrand family, supported by a lion and a unicorn and stamped with a crown. Various silversmiths. TWO SPOONS, Paris, 1780; TWO SPOONS with the 1st Rooster, Paris, 1798-1809; TWO FORKS with the 2nd Rooster, Paris, 1809-1819. The others to the Old Man, 1819-1838. Arms engraved later. Weight : 1 424 g. (Wear). Provenance : Joly de Rosgrand family. By descent, property of Saint-Malo. "The coat of arms of the Joly family is azure with a natural lily argent on a golden chief charged with a cross pattée sable. Always seeking to affirm his nobility, Simon-Bernard Joly (Port-Louis, 1740 - Quimperlé, 1802) combined his arms with those of some of the previous lords of Rosgrand, in an elaborate composition in quartered form and including the coat of arms of the Joly family, that of the Du Terre (or Ter or Tertre), lords of Rosgrand in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that of Boyer or Bouyer. Its motto is "Magnus amoris amor". (In Yann CELTON Cécile OULHEN, La chapelle domestique de Rosgrand en Rédéné, Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Bretagne, 2017. T. XCV, pp. 593 and 596).