PURPLE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS LL FOR 1788, PAINTER'S MARK FOR BUTEUX, GILDER'S MARK FOR BOILEAU, THE PENTIMENTO OF THE MARK FOR VINCENT VISIBLE BENEATH IT

Described in the sales records as Festons bleu céleste, several services in this pattern are known: a dessert service sold to the Paris dealers Empaytaz et Cie. between 10 October and 5 December 1794 (purported to be the one sold Sotheby's London, 17 March 1987, lot 120); another sold to the London dealer Enoch Rittener on 4 and 10 March 1987; and a part dinner service sold Christie's London, 3 December 1984, lot 22. A single plate from the collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss was sold Christie's Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 22.