The Louis XV service contained no less than eight shapes of basket-tray. It was the first occasion they were sold by the factory and subsequently they were never a common item. Being heavily potted they were prone to fire cracks and also being pierced with elaborate borders they were very expensive to produce which almost certainly accounts for their rarity in later services. There were a total of thirty-five baskets in the service of which twenty-two are known to survive. The present example has the unusual arrowhead gilding which together with the lapped sequin gilding was exclusive to this service.

The 31 December 1755 delivery to the King contained four Corbeilles lozanges at 480 livres each, which must be the four offered as the present example and lots 390-392