Lot Essay
Tamara Préaud notes that the 'coupe à bouillon et sa soucoupe' first appears in drawings in the Sèvres archives in 1803, see The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, Exhibition Catalogue, The Bard Graduate Centre, New York, 1997, p. 175, no. 10.