
Sophie von der Goltz
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The pattern of bleu céleste ground and reserves of polychrome flowers and fruit was made for stock and seems to have been produced from 1776 onwards. Several services, notably the gift in 1783 from Louis XVI to the Duchess of Manchester, were drawn from this pattern (see D. Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, vol. III (2005), p. 623). This sucrier may have been from the service purchased in 1781 by Jacques Millet, which included four sucriers. Six similar sucriers, including one also painted by Levé, formed part of the Duchess of Manchester, now in the Royal Collection (see G. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, vol. II, (2009), no. 162).