This pot à sucre Calabre is un-marked.

A dessert service of this pattern but without the gold dot ground was purchased in December 1766 by the Marquis de Durfort-Civrac, later Duc de Civrac, when he left for Austria to become French ambassador in Vienna [Peters 66-5].

The factory’s piecework and overtime ledgers record that in 1767, the painter Charles-Louis Méreaud painted a quantity of teawares with decoration of ‘service Durfort sablé d’or’. It is likely that our teapot was part of this group.