THE MEISSEN BASKET CIRCA 1750 WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE FLOWERS FRENCH 18TH CENTURY AND WITH SOME LATER REPLACEMENTS, THE ORMOLU 19TH CENTURY

For the most ambitious ormolu-mounted ensemble with Vincennes flowers, a gift of Marie-Josèphe of France to her father Augustus III of Saxony, see Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, 'Sèvres Porcelain' (1987), pl. 2, pp. 190 and 191.