
Sebastian Kuhn
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Provenance:
Delivered to the château de Versailles for Louis XV, King of France (1710-1774)
See David Peters, Services of the 18th Century (2005, revised edition 2015), II, no. 63-2, pp. 353-356. The service was supplemented several times, firstly by Louis XV and later by Louis XVI. The original purchase in 1763 probably included some of the plates at 24 livres each and there were subsequent purchases of assiettes in 1769 and 1771 (Peters, ibid., p.355).
Six plates from the service are in the Musée national de Céramique at Sèvres; another is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Various other pieces are in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; the Château de Versailles; the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A pair of plates was sold at Christie's New York, 24 October 2012, lot 159, and a pair of oval dishes also at Christie's New York, 7 October 2022, lot 37.