A crystal coat-of-arms serving set from the late 19th–early - Lot 113

Lot n° 113
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A crystal coat-of-arms serving set from the late 19th–early - Lot 113
A crystal coat-of-arms serving set from the late 19th–early 20th century The bowl, resting on a straight cylindrical stem and a circular base, is engraved with a crest consisting of a ducal crown surmounted by a depiction of Melusine, comprising: - 6 water glasses - FIVE red wine glasses - 5 white wine glasses; plus 6 sweet white wine glasses, of the same shape and with the same engraved decoration; (ribbed) Height of a water glass: 13.5 cm The coat of arms of the Ranchin de Montaran family Azure, a fess Or, accompanied in the chief by three stars of the same color and in the base by a silver masonry well. Supporters: two Melusines holding a hand mirror. Surmounted by a marquis’s crown, from which one of these Melusines emerges. ----------------------------------- The Ranchin de Montaran family (formerly Ranchin) descends from Pierre Ranchin, a merchant and citizen of Uzès in the 14th century. Their descendants included an ambassador to Constantinople, auditors at the Chamber of Accounts in Montpellier, tax collectors, a deputy to the Estates of Orléans in 1560, a counselor at the Court of Aides, a consul of Montpellier, several councilors to the Parliament of Toulouse, a councilor and Secretary to the King, a governor of Saint-Hypolite (see his ex-libris above), etc. See, in particular: Bnf, Chérin 168, Dossiers bleus 556, PO 2432, etc. This service was likely made for Charles Marie Armand de Ranchin (1841–1899) or for his son Pierre de Ranchin (born in 1876); see the latter’s son: Philippe (1910–1990), whose descendants live to this day. The fact that this service does not bear the full coat of arms of the Ranchins of Montaran can most likely be explained by the Anglomania of the time, which—on silverware, porcelain, etc.—used only the crest: the crest plus the figure emerging from it. Thus, here we see a ducal crown—such misrepresentations of rank were very common in France—from which emerges one of these Melusines holding a hand mirror.
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