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But the practice existed at an  aristocratic level as an alternative to the usual coffee and chocolate. So-called cabaret sets or déjeuners  consisted of  complete services on a tray for just one or two people. The Vincennes/Sèvres factory gave them the most luxurious  treatment, since its patrons were the wealthiest members of French society.\n\nThis is an example of the smallest type of tea set made by the factory, a <i>déjeuner carré</i>, and comprises a single cup and  saucer on a square tray with pierced sides.  Individual tea sets first appear in the factory records in 1755, and the sales records (most of which have miraculously survived) prove that the purchasers were often the most important members of the court, including the King and his mistress the Madame de Pompadour.  This example has extremely unusual ground decoration comprising different shapes painted in relief, scattered like confetti on a background of gilded dots.  Some shapes appear to be abstract, but others clearly depict objects including a butterfly,  a jug, a heart, a bottle, dividers etc.  It is possible this decoration was inspired by richly jewelled material, enamels or confectionary.  The reserves were painted by the decorator André-Vincent Vielliard.  While the tray has gardening implements, the cup and saucer have different implements needed to make and serve tea, coffee and chocolate.  On the saucer, Vielliard has included in a group of porcelain and a coffee-grinder next to a tall pointed object.  This is a sugar loaf, the standard way sugar was bought in the 18th century, partially wrapped in its traditional blue paper.  The sugar is the costly refined white type.","physicalDescription":"Cup and saucer, probably for coffee, of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Each with a panel with a garden scene showing the preparation of coffee. 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