French Armorial Purple Gold Dinner Service 1885

French white porcelain scalloped edged dinner service for 6+, the inner wells of the plates outlined with gold scroll design and the centre with a coloured Armorial bearing / coat of arms or alternatively family initials of the Casgrain family of Quebec and Ontario, manufactured by Bertin Tissier and Cie porcelain manufacturers of Rue de Rivoli 90, Paris, France, with company mark on reverse, circa 1885. The set includes 6 dinner plates, 8 salad plates, 7 wide rimmed soup bowls, 8 crescent salad plates and two large serving tureens. Condition statement – noted restoration to edge of two dinner plates, restoration to handle on lid of one tureen, minor scratches to some pieces. – Provenance – Property of the Casgrain family of Quebec, the set was custom ordered by Joseph Phillipe Baby Casgrain and Ellen Mary Cook shortly after their marriage in 1885. Joseph Phillipe Baby Casgrain (1856 – 1939) was a Quebec surveyor, civil engineer and political figure in Quebec. He was a Liberal member of the Senate of Canada for De Lanaudiere from 1900 to 1939. Ellen Mary Cook was from Williamsburg, Ontario. J.P.B. Casgrain was the son of Pierre Phillipe Baby Casgrain (1826 – 1917) a Quebec lawyer and author who served as a member of the Canadian House of Commons. Pierre Phillipe Baby Casgrains brother Charles-Eusebe Casgrain was an Ontario physician, and served as a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada for Windsor from 1887 to 1907. J.P.B Casgrains paternal grandparents were Charles-Eusebe Casgrain (1800 – 1848) a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Baby, from the prominent Baby family of York, Upper Canada. By descent to the current owners. Tureens measure 12 x 7 x 7.5 inches H, soup plates measure 9.25 inches diameter, small plates measure 8.5 inches diameter.

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