The silver fitments of this dressing case carry Parisian hallmarks and the three major pieces are engraved with the arms of an unmarried girl or a woman (they are set within a lozenge). The arms are detailed in the description of the object above. J.B. Rietstap, Armorial général, précédé d'un dictionnaire des terms du blason, 1884-7; reprint from 1934, 2 vols, gives a number of families to whom these arms might apply: Dammartin of Burgundy0; Dio de Montpeyroux (or Montpeiroux) of France; Palatin de Dio de Montpeyroux of Bresse, Savoie, Burgundy, Orleans and Brittany); Parlo of Gerlderland; and Picquigny of Picardy. There are slight differences between the families. The coronet shown above the arms is that of a duke or a marquis. It has been suggested that a possible owners might have been: a member of the Dio de Montpeyroux family who was the Abbess of Port-Royal, Paris from 1769-1790. See Archives nationals de France (SÉRIE K - MONUMENTS HISTORIQUE; TITLE V-DIGNITÉS ET OFFICE; k 654.14 à 20 BIS. Abbayes). Also: 18 Brevet de nomination par le Roi de Marie-Jeanne-Florimonde de Dio de Montpeyroux, à l'abbaye de Port-Royal de Paris, 14 mai 1769. Anne Josèphe Bonnier de la Mosson, duchesse de Picquigny, then duchesse de Chaulnes (1718-1782). In 1734 she married Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly duc de Picquigny, duc de Chaulnes (who died in 1769). After being widowed, she married Henri de Giac, called the marquis de Giac. Marie Paule Angelique d'Albert de Luynes, duchesse de Picquigny, then in 1769 duchesse de Chaulnes (07/09/1744 -?). She was married to Marie Joseph Louis d'Albert d'Ailly, son of Michel Ferdinand, Vidame d'Amiens, then duc de Pecquigny, then in 1769 duc de Chaulnes (1741-1793). These two women were Dames du Palais for Marie Leszcynska and then for Marie Antoinette. None of this has been proven but is recorded here to aid subsequent research.