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Lot Essay
Apparently representing the two different French royal services ordered for Louis XV and his uncle, the Regent, whose post-mortem 10 March 1724 inventory lists his. Known pieces from these services display a range of extravagant shapes, from shell-handled sauce tureens to triple spice boxes, wine coolers, tripod pots and bidets, and they must have been impressive indeed.
French trading relations with China were on a much smaller scale than the Dutch or English, and wealth was more closely held in French society in the period. Only a handful of French aristocratic families commissioned armorial export porcelain.
French trading relations with China were on a much smaller scale than the Dutch or English, and wealth was more closely held in French society in the period. Only a handful of French aristocratic families commissioned armorial export porcelain.