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The blue ground heightened with vermiculé gilding and reserved with four gilt-edged panels with flower sprays, gilt-edged rim, 27.8cm long, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter I in blue, dot in blue and incised mark
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Provenance
Delivered to César-Gabriel, duc de Choiseul-Praslin, in 1762 as intermediary for the gift to Louis-Jules-Henri-Barbon-Mancini-Mazarin, duc de Nivernois, Minister-Plenipotentiary of France to Great-Britain from 12 September 1763 - 11 June 1763
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, 2022, Vol. 3, p. 281
The service is recorded in the Journal des Présents du Roi on 28 January 1763 costing 10,714 livres and given to "M. le Duc de Nivernois Ambassadeur du Roi à la Cour de Londres", in thanks for his contribution in the negotiations between France and Great-Britain which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The punch bowl from the service is in the collection at Petworth House with a label stating that it was presented to the 2nd Earl of Egremont, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by the duc de Nivernais.
See David Peters, , vol. II, 2005, revised edition 2015, pp. 347-348, no. 62-2, and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, , vol. II, 2009, pp. 591-595, no. 145, for a full discussion of the service.
Fifty-eight pieces from the service are in the Royal Collection (G. de Bellaigue, , pp. 591-595, no. 145).
Condition is not specified in the lot cataloguing. Please request a condition report.