Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille) ca. 1753 Vincennes Manufactory French One of the most influential and renowned porcelain dinner services made during the eighteenth century was the first produced for Louis XV (1710-1774), king of France, by the Vincennes factory in France. Commissioned in 1751 to include both dinner and dessert wares, the service was sufficiently extensive in scale and challenging to produce that it necessitated delivery in three major installments over a three-year period, which began in 1753.1 Because it was the first service of significant scale produced at Vincennes, it required the development of many new models, and it was the first to employ the turquoise ground color, known as bleu céleste, that the factory had just developed.2 The goldsmith Jean-Claude Duplessis (Italian, ca. 1695-1774), known as Duplessis père to distinguish him from his son Jean-Claude- Thomas Duplessis (French, ca. 1730-1783), was the artistic director at Vince