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Description: Upon a moulded base plinth, wide scrolled side double fillets with foliage about the scrolls and suspended bell flowers in chain above; central foliate cartouche behind an oval shield surmounted by a vicomte's coronet, with an abbot's mitre to the left and the scrolled top of an abbot's crozier to the right; on top, an arch rising from horizontal moulding on each side, with a small central cartouche enclosing a plain button and a suspended bell flower.
Notes: The quartered arms may include those of Leclerc de Lesseville (az. three crescents or), one of whose number was bishop of Coutances 1659-65.
Arms: ?Leclerc quartering ?
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- complex individual (edging)
- whole carved pattern
Manufactured: in the late-17th to early-18th century in France.
Current location:, not known.
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks