BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS HH FOR 1785, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MLLE. ARMAND, NO INCISED MARKS

The present pair of salts are from a service likely made for Louis XV at Versailles and produced between 1783 and 1790. For other pieces from this service, see exhibition catalogue, De Versailles à Paris, Mairie du Veme Arrondissment, Paris, 1989, p. 262, no. 129, illustration opposite p. 145; exhibition catalogue, Versailles et les tables royales en Europe, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, 3 November 1993-27 February 1994, p. 291, nos. 97-105, color illus. p. 142; exhibition catalogue, Porzellan, Königliches aus Frankreich, Fulda, 1999, p. 82-83; and The Collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Christie's Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 167.

Mlle. Félicité Armand, daughter of the noted Sèvres bird painter, is recorded as a flower painter at the factory 1777-1785.