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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.  \r\nThe tray with this tea service was known as <i>corbeille lozange </i>and it was designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis, <i>directeur artistique</i> at the porcelain factory. Originially the shape was intended as a desert serving dish and was included in the first full service made at Vincennes, ordered by the King, Louis XV in 1753 and delivered 1753-55. These were decorated with a deep turquoise ground, flower sprays and gilded with rose thorn borders, and were among the most expensive individual items in the service, costing 480<i> livres</i> each.   Surviving examples from the king's service show that they were all thickly potted and prone to damage in the kiln.  Perhaps for this reason, unlike the other shapes, they were rarely re-used and are seldom found today.  Here this unusual shape serves as a tray for a tea service, a <i>déjeuner corbeille</i>, and fortunately the matching cups and saucers, teapot and sugar bowl have all survived. This cup, like most of the other items, is marked with the date-letter H for 1761 and the anchor symbol for the painter Buteux.  Charles Buteux specialised in trophies, depictions of themed objects carefully arranged into artful groups.  The objects in the trophy on the tray relate to astronomy, geography and navigation, while those on the other pieces relate to love, music, travel and wine.  The ground colour is a pale turquoise, known as <i>petit verd </i>which, as Rosalind Savill has pointed out, is also unusual and seems to be found only on pieces dating to the early 1760s. Perhaps the King's influential mistress, the marquise de  Pompadour, was responsible for popularising it at court, as she is known to have bought a <i>petit verd</i> garniture of a clock and  two pairs of vases in 1762.","physicalDescription":"Cup, soft-paste porcelain, double entwined foliate ended handle, decorated with trophies painted in enamel colours, with gilding, on a pale turquoise ground.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Soft-paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Tea, Coffee & Chocolate wares","id":"THES48886"},{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2010EJ2520","2014GY9003","2014GY9004","2006AP9457","2017KE1837"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"1","id":"THES263059"},"free":"","case":"CA13","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"cups","id":"AAT43202"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1761","earliest":"1761-01-01","latest":"1761-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"762-1882","id":"O99160"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"762A-1882","id":"O99161"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"762B-1882","id":"O99162"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"762C-1882","id":"O99163"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"762D-1882","id":"O99164"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"762F-1882","id":"O99166"},"association":"Set"}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"5.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"7.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"9.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"maximum","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'H' enclosed within interlaced 'L's","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Maker's mark, in blue enamel with date letter 'H'"},{"content":"an anchor","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Painter's mark, in blue enamel for Charles Buteux"},{"content":"'LF'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"incised"},{"content":"'*'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"John Jones Bequest, Cat. no.118.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Cup, porcelain, decorated with trophies painted in enamel colours, Sèvres porcelain factory, France, 1761","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Peters, David.  <u>An examination of Vincennes and early  Sèvres date letters</u>.  The French Porcelain Society, A transcript of the talk given at the French Porcelain Society Study Day on 17 June 2014.  London, 2014.  Following a detailed analysis of the records against existing pieces, Peters has suggested 'h' is now for 1761, not 1760-61 as formerly thought."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"trophies","id":"x38269"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["762E-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"762","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LT9025"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-12-10","recordCreationDate":"2004-06-07","availableToBook":false}}