The Sèvres factory often provided replacements for damaged or lost items, particularly service wares, and many such pieces are listed in the sales registers, or were sometimes commissioned by Duvaux. Very occasionally the factory made a replacement for a piece of Chinese porcelain. The blue and white beaker in the present lot is probably the example bought on 6 June 1758 by the vicomte Angran de Fonspertuis, described as a 'gobelet chinois', costing 15 livres (Sèvres sales registers, 2, 6 June 1758, f.61v). Fonspertuis, Intendant des Menus, working for the duc de Bourgogne, acquired items that day both for the duc de Bourgogne and on his own account. His father, Louis-Auguste Angran, vicomte de Fonspertuis, inherited a collection of Chinese porcelain from his maternal uncle, Du Vivier, which was sold upon the vicomte's death in 1749. Savill has suggested that his son inherited the broken pieces of a Chinese beaker from the collection and eleven years later commissioned a replacement. See Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour & Sèvres Porcelain, Norwich, 2021, vol. II, p. pp. 949-950, note 245 and p. 943, fig. 18.45 for an illustration of the present lot.

Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles was a flower painter and gilder, active at the factory from 1755 to 1800.