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The importance of this service is recorded in the Mémoires du Duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV (1735-58) (Paris, 1860-65) Vol. 16, pp. 92, 144, 328. The Duc de Luynes makes reference to various visits to the factory by the King to check the progress, he goes on to describe the service, the marking of the service, the ground colour and the great expense.
David Peter's records this service in Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (Little Berkhamsted, 2005), pp. 295-298, service no. 57-2. In his entry he notes that the service was offered as a reciprocal gift following the presentation of stallions by Frederik V to Louis XV.
In the Livre Journal de Lazare Duvaux entry no. 3068 records the service:
S. M. le Roy: Livré à M. l'abbé Cte de BERNIS, miniftre des affaires étrangères, pour S.M.Danoife: Un fervice de porcelaine de France, en vert, peint à figures, fleurs & oifeaux, compofé de: (...) -- Soixante-douze affiettes, à 60 l., 4,320 l. (...)
The total cost of the service was 34,542 Livres (including packing, shipping and duties)
Most of this extensive service is retained in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. The first mention of the service in Russia is in 1841, when it is recorded as being at the Palace of Gatchina, see Natalia Kasakevitj, 'Grüne Service. Service mit Kameen. -- Zur Tafel im Winterpalast.', Catalogue (Kolding, 1994) pp. 152-164, 167-175. Between 1887 and 1890 the service was transfered to the Museum of the Winter Palace and then included in the Porcelain Gallery of the Hermitage Museum, created in 1910.
A plate in the collection of the Musée de Louvre (inv. no. OA 7197) is illustrated by Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, 'La porcelaine de Vincennes-Sèvres: une arme diplomatique au 18e siècle', The French Porcelain Society Journal (2007), Vol. III, p. 22, fig. 1.
The painter's mark H is as yet unidentified but belonged to a painter of flowers active at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1753 to 1761 and again in 1763 and 1764. David Peters suggests C.-F. Becquet and M. Socquet as possible candidates.
David Peter's records this service in Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (Little Berkhamsted, 2005), pp. 295-298, service no. 57-2. In his entry he notes that the service was offered as a reciprocal gift following the presentation of stallions by Frederik V to Louis XV.
In the Livre Journal de Lazare Duvaux entry no. 3068 records the service:
S. M. le Roy: Livré à M. l'abbé Cte de BERNIS, miniftre des affaires étrangères, pour S.M.Danoife: Un fervice de porcelaine de France, en vert, peint à figures, fleurs & oifeaux, compofé de: (...) -- Soixante-douze affiettes, à 60 l., 4,320 l. (...)
The total cost of the service was 34,542 Livres (including packing, shipping and duties)
Most of this extensive service is retained in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. The first mention of the service in Russia is in 1841, when it is recorded as being at the Palace of Gatchina, see Natalia Kasakevitj, 'Grüne Service. Service mit Kameen. -- Zur Tafel im Winterpalast.', Catalogue (Kolding, 1994) pp. 152-164, 167-175. Between 1887 and 1890 the service was transfered to the Museum of the Winter Palace and then included in the Porcelain Gallery of the Hermitage Museum, created in 1910.
A plate in the collection of the Musée de Louvre (inv. no. OA 7197) is illustrated by Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, 'La porcelaine de Vincennes-Sèvres: une arme diplomatique au 18
The painter's mark H is as yet unidentified but belonged to a painter of flowers active at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1753 to 1761 and again in 1763 and 1764. David Peters suggests C.-F. Becquet and M. Socquet as possible candidates.