At some point the pair of tureens and stands were separated, only being re-united by the present owner in 1978. Tureen no.1 was bought by the shipowner Hans Torbiesen from the Lundsgaard Estate, near Kertminde on the island of Fyn, in 1939. On Tobiesens death in 1954 his collection was auctioned at Bruun Rasmussen, the tureen and stand being purhased by the art dealer Otto Berg and later sold to the present owner in 1978. Tureen no.2 and stand no.2 were exhibited in 1953 as the property of Kay Suenson and Holger Drucker respectively. On Drucker's death in the 1960's the tureen no. 2 was sold at Braun Rasmussen and bought by Kay Suenson. The present owner purchased tureen no.2 and stand no.2 from the Suenson family in 1978 shortly after acquiring tureen and stand no. 1.

In the first half of the eighteenth century many magnificent dinner services were commissioned from the great Parisian silversmiths such as Ballin, Germain, Cousinet, Roettiers and Auguste by King Louis XIV, the regent Philippe d'Orléans, the aristocracy and the new borgeois of France. The reputation of Parisian silversmiths spread throughout Europe and many foreign monarchs formed large collections of French silver, Joseph I of Portugal and Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia, the Scandinavian courts of Charles X and Christian XII of Sweden and Christian VI and Christian VII of Denmark being notable examples. After a time local silversmiths began to produce work based on French prototypes. Jérôme Paul Lenoir was just such a silversmith. A Huguenot who took Danish citizenship in 1748, he was renown for the skill with which he interpreted the French forms and designs. His work follows the tradition of the French masters but with an originality of his own. The appearance of a pair of tureens and stands such as these is a rarity as so many are now in State or Museum collections or have been seperated as these once were.