The shape name for the distinctive tray supporting the present tea service varies. The name plateau à baguettes is found in the manufactory’s description of a clearly identifiable service of 1773 made for Prince Paul Petrovich of Russia, Catherine the Great’s son. Also recorded in the 18th century as a plateau ovale polylobé, the shape was known in the 19th century as a plateau à rubans.

Examples are to be found at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (inv. 1917.1063), the center painted with landscapes on a colorful ribbon trellis ground, the ochre, red, and green ribbons enclosing blue and carmine oeil de perdrix; and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (object no. 58.75.103) as the foundation of a bleu nouveau déjeuner of 1775 painted with military scenes by Jean-Louis Morin, comprising a tray, two cups and saucers, a sugar-bowl, and a three-footed cream-jug instead of a teapot, the military scenes in the same spirit as those on the gobelet ‘litron’ and saucer in the Hart Collection offered in this sale.

A turquoise-ground déjeuner with the same shaped tray was sold Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain from New England Collection sale, Christie's New York, 5 May 1999, lot 52.

Bertrand was active at Sèvres as a painter of flowers between 1757-1775.
Jean-Pierre Boulanger was active at Vincennes and Sèvres 1754-1785 as a gilder and a painter specializing in patterns.