DATED 1833 AND 1834, GREY STENCILLED CIRCULAR SEVRES AND STAR MARK FOR 1834, GREEN DECORATING DATE MARK D.7BR.33.S (?) FOR 1833, GILDER'S MARKS W. AND 6, INCISED Z (?) AND 32-6

Under the directorship of Alexandre Brongniart work on the Forestier service was begun on 30th January 1834. Six painters at the Royal Manufactory worked on the service; Alphonse Robert, Jean-Baptiste Gabriel Langlacé, Nicolas Antoine Le Bel, Jean-Charles Develly and Antoine Achille Poupart. Between 1834 and 1840 one hundred and forty plates were made, the first two of which were sent for sale on 18th July 1835, and sold immediately to Baron Roger the elder for two hundred francs each. Sixty-one plates were exhibited at the 1835 'Exposition des Produits des Manufactures' at the Louvre, with further pieces, including shaped wares, being exhibited in 1838, also at the Louvre. On 28th December 1850 sixty plates, and other pieces from the service were sent as a gift to Sultan Abdul Mejid I (1838-1861), and in March 1852 the remainder of the service was sent to the department of the Navy.

An example of a plate from the service is illustrated by Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres, Fribourg, 1978, p. 293, no. 367, and two further examples are in the Louvre, Paris (nos. OA 11356 and OA 11357).