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 on the lambrequins and ironwork motifs across the entire rim.
In the center are the alliance coat of arms surmounted by the count's crown.
For Count Walsin-Esterhazy, the coat of arms is: "azure, a griffin crowned or supported by a crown of the same, holding in the dexter paw a sword or and in the sinister a rose branch vert flowered with 3 gules."
For Mademoiselle de Faultrier, the coat of arms is: "argent, a lion rampant gules, a fess sable debruising the lion charged in the sinister with a star of the field and a border compony of 24 gules. and gold"
Count Marie-Paul Walsin-Esterhazy (1836-1896)
Marie-Louise de Faultrier (1842-1920)
The base of the service is blue, very typical of this period in Gien
Stamp on the back from 1860
Ceremonial service in superb condition with a very shiny glaze and shimmering colors
An exceptional set of 86 pieces
Comprising:
29 dinner plates, d: 25 cm
15 soup plates
26 dessert plates
6 large platters (2 oval - 4 round)
2 ramekins
5 footed bowls (3 tall - 2 short)
1 salad bowl
1 soup tureen
1 sauce boat
a total of 86 pieces
Biographies:
Marie Paul WALSIN-ESTERHAZY
Born 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 later sub-prefect, then prefect of Bordeaux in 1893, and died on October 15, 1896, in Bordeaux.
Marie-Louise de FAULTRIER
Born on October 8, 1842, in Metz, Moselle.
Parents: Alfred de Faultrier (Magistrate) and Jeanne Louise Pierre d'Hagondange.
She married Count Marie Paul Walsin-Esterhazy in Metz in 1864.
Marie-Louise de Faultrier died in 1920, at the age of 78.

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