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In 1758 Louis XV's daughter Madame Adélaïde gave her elder sister Madame Louise Elisabeth, the Duchesse of Parma, a set of 12 plates decorated with bleu lapis ground and birds. In 1765 Fillippo, the Duke of Parma added hugely to this service and a huge supplement of pieces from which these plateau Bourets come was ordered and supplied in 1769.

The 1765 delivery for the Filippo, Duke of Parma, son-in-law of Louis XV of France was sent from the factory in April but the Duke died in July of that year. It was purchased through the Parma court's agent in Paris, Claude Bonnet. The service is clearly identified in a 1768 inventory. His son Ferdinando at that time sent an order to Paris through the agent Jean-?Dominique Testard acting for him to enlarge this sumptuous service from being used for 12 guests to 24. Interestingly this order even included at least one accurate drawing of a 1765 circular tray already in Parma being sent to Sèvres so that the piece and pattern could be accurately copied. That drawing survives in the Sèvres archives.

These stands are two of the eight bleu lapis gound plateau Bourets from the 1769 delivery, each costing 36 livres which is slightly more than a plate, each of which was 33 livres. The whereabouts of the other six is not known.