BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK, DATE LETTERS LL FOR 1788, AND GILDER'S MARK FOR PRÉVOST TO BOTH, THE MORTAR ALSO WITH PAINTER'S MARK FOR BOUILLAT PÉRE

The painter's mark of a capital Y is that of both M. Edmé-François and Mme Genèvieve-Louise Bouillat, husband and wife and both flower painters at the Sèvres factory, he 1758-1810 and she 1776-1798.

In a French dessert service, a punch bowl was accompanied by a mortar in which to grind the herbs that made up the potent beverage.