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Such sets are known as 'cabarets' in Britain, where they were usually for one or two people, and as <i>déjeuners</i> in France, where they were sometimes equipped with four cups. Eighteenth-century accounts of tea drinking in France indicate that the tea was made very strong in a small pot, and then diluted with hot water before being drunk. Tea was drunk with hot or cold milk and sweetened with white sugar. It is unlikely, however, that these pieces were ever used by Horace Walpole, their first owner, for anything other than display.<br><br><b>People</b><br>The service was bought by the writer, designer and collector Horace Walpole on a trip to Paris in 1765-1766. On this trip he spent more than £400 on porcelain and confessed that he bought china faster than he could pay for it.<br><br><b>Trading</b><br>Walpole purchased these pieces some years after they were made, so he probably bought them from the stock of a Paris dealer, rather than as new pieces from the factory. 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