Silversmith PIAULT LINZELER - Two casters for bottles - solid silver - Hallmark "MINERVE" - Beginning of 20th century

ARMS ON SILVER BOTTLE COASTERS, maker’s mark of Piault The arms engraved on these silver coasters are those of Lannes, dukes of Montebello and probably made for Maurice-Jean-Napoléon Lannes de Montebello. The Lannes of Montebello were descendants of Jean Lannes, Maréchal de France in 1804 and duc de Montebello by royal warrant dated 15^th June 1818. Born in 1769 in Lectourne in the Gers region, he died in 1809 in Ebersdorf, Austria, of wounds sustained in the battle of Essling. With his second wife, Louise-Antoinette Guéheneuc, he had four children, the eldest being Louis-Napoléon Lannes (1801-1874), duc de Montebello, Duc Pair de France, naval minister, ambassador and senator. In 1830 Louis-Napoléon married Eléonore Jenkinson who gave him two sons: Napoléon Camille Lannes duc de Montebello, born in 1835 and Charles Lannes, born in 1836, who inherited the title upon the death of his brother in 1876. Charles who also held the prestigious title of Prince of Sievercz, given to prince-bishops of Warsaw, married Marie- Thérèse O’Tard de la Grange who bore him a son, Maurice-Jean-Napoléon Lannes de Montebello,born two years after their marriage in 1867 who died in Paris in 1917.