
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
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Head of Department, Director

Department Director

Head of Sale
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierre-Edme-Berthelin de Mauroy, Inspecteur de la Manufacture Royale de Sèvres, on November 25, 1784;
Collection Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato, Florence, sold Pillet-Mannheim, Paris, March 23, 1870, lot 177;
Collection Adolphe Lion, Paris;
European Private Collection
Various letters in the Sèvres archives between de Mauroy and Regnier, the factory director, point to the fact that de Mauroy was acting as an intermediary and purchasing the service on behalf of a third party. For a full discussion of the service, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2005), 84-12, III, pp. 727f.