"Pair Of Bronze Buckets Alliance Coat Of Arms Descazeaux Du Hallay And Sarsfield 17th Century"
Pair of bronze cooling buckets from the end of the 17th century on a pedestal molded with a cavet and gadroons, with two detached handles, neck encircled with gadroons, flat body surrounded by flats and decorated with the arms of alliance in oval shields of Joachim des Cazeaux du Hallay and Françoise Sarsfield, Breton families. Buckets in very good condition, the bottom of one of them including an old restoration, visible in photos. Height 22 cm, diameter 21 cm. Joachim des Cazeaux du Hallay, merchant, deputy to the Commercial Council of Nantes, alderman of Nantes in 1674, deputy mayor in 1676, married in 1691 to Françoise Sarsfield, ennobled in 1702. Coat of arms: Azure with a garden of nine squares Argent, bordered Vert, supported by two lions confronted Or and accompanied by four lion cubs of the same (Arm. 1696). Motto: Virius non vertitur. Françoise Sarsfield of Irish origin, married in 1691 to Joachim des Cazeaux du Hallay Coat of arms: Part gules and argent with a fleur-de-lis broaching over the whole, part argent and sable, and charged on the top of an azure star and a silver canton charged with a dexter and pale hand of carnation. Cf. General Armorial – Brittany – Charles d’Hozier, according to the edict of November 1696.