Rosewood case inlaid with engraved mother-of-pearl foliage a - Lot 277

Rosewood case inlaid with engraved mother-of-pearl foliage and flowers, decorated in the center with the count's coat of arms: Sable, three silver cans. It contains four token boxes, silver-mounted with fluted decoration and finely engraved mother-of-pearl plates with lambrequins and floral motifs surrounding the count's coat of arms, identical to those on the box, and in each corner the symbols pique, cœur, carreau and trèfle. They contain 33 round tokens, with the same coat of arms on the front, a pair of doves pecking among branches on the reverse, and 5 non-armorial tokens, 75 large rectangular tokens and 20 half-tokens with the same decoration. For the mounting, Paris 1743 (letter C) LLR maitre Orfèvre, probably LouisLeroy reçumaitre in 1741 (some small chips to tokens). The box : Height : 4,6cm- Width : 18,8cm- Depth : 14,9cm Each box: Height: 3.4cm- Width: 8.4cm- Depth: 6.7cm Note : These are probably the arms of the de Launay family, seigneur de Montaleu, de Scepaux, et de la Ragottiere in Astille (Mayenne). Rene de Launay was first alderman of Laval in 1743 and 1746. Provenance: Gros-Delettrez sale, 29.11.2011, lot 115.