
Ghislaine Howard
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Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium
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Provenance:
Purchased by Lazare Duvaux in 1757 and supplied to Louis XV for the Château de Fontainebleau
Purchased for specific use at the Château de Fontainebleau, the service remained in use in the royal household and was supplemented various times between 1763 and 1787.
The present lot is the stand of only two sucriers 'ovale', costing 84 livre each, noted in the service list for the 1757 delivery of the service, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services (2005, revised edition 2015), vol. II, no. 57-1, pp. 297-299. The other one with its matching sugar bowl is now in the Musée national du château de Fontainebleau with other surviving components from the service.