CIRCA 1775, INTERLACED L'S MARK TO ALL FOUR, TWO WITH DATE LETTER X FOR 1775, PAINTERS MARKS FOR BUTEUX FILS AN AND FOR THVENET AND GILDER'S MARK FOR CHAUVAUX L'AN TO THREE, THE FOURTH WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR THVENET AND GILDER'S MARK FOR CHAUVAUX L'AN

Three more ice cups from this as yet unidentified dessert service of 1775 were acquired by Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post. See Liana Paredes Arend, Svres Porcelain at Hillwood, Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, D.C., 1998, fig. 21. Other examples may be those formerly in the Chester Beatty Collection (Sotheby & Co., London, 15 November 1955), the Oscar Dusendschon Collection (Sotheby & Co., London, 6 December 1960, lot 69), The Ren Fribourg Collection (Sotheby & Co., London, 5 July 1966, lots 117 and 118).

Charles-Nicolas Buteux fils an, recorded at Svres as a painter and gilder, 1765-1784.

Louis-Jean Thvenet, recorded at Vincennes and Svres as a painter of flowers and patterns, 1741-1777.

Michel-Barnab Chauvaux, recorded at Vincennes and Svres as a gilder and painter of patterns, 1752-1788.