LARGE OVAL SILVER COPPER TRAY, with two handles, with the " arms of the Lasalle Von Louisenthal Family ". Bordered with gadroons in suite. Handles moved foliated. Length: 74 cm x 48 cm. A.B.E. Second part of the 19th century. Provenance : Descendants of General Samuel de Marescot. History: The Lasalle de Louisenthal were cousins of General Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle. Guillaume Albert de Lasalle de Louisenthal (1768-1846) fought on the opposite side of his cousin, in the army of the Princes, then as a privateer. Several of his sons served in the Bavarian army.

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