Sugar bowl with cover (sucrier de Monsieur le Premier) (one of a pair) (part of a service), 1772, French, Sèvres, Soft-paste porcelain, Gr. H. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.); L. 9 in. (22.9 cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, The table services produced at Sèvres in the eighteenth century were highly prized and extremely expensive. They were not only purchased by the Crown and members of the aristocracy but also given by the king as diplomatic gifts to foreign courts and visiting dignitaries, and the esteem in which they were held did much to enhance the factory’s prestige and fortunes
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