Bowl from the Rambouillet service (Jatte écuelle) 1787 Sèvres Manufactory French Queen Marie-Antoinettes dairy at Rambouillet, one of the last royal commissions prior to the Revolution of 1789, initiated a new archeological form of neoclassicism in France, one more reliant on actual classical prototypes than before. The furnishings and porcelain commissioned for the dairy were inspired by the “Etruscan” vases and the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The Comte dAngiviller, Director General of the Kings Works and a keen proponent of classical art, intended to strengthen the commercial viability of the Sèvres factory by exploiting the current taste for the antique and copying ancient examples, for example, from Pierre dHancarvilles illustrated catalogue of Sir William Hamiltons vase collection.[1 In order to help reform the factorys designs, dAngiviller appointed Jean-Jacques Lagrenée the Younger as Sèvres artistic co-director in 1785 to work with Jean-Jacques Bachelier, w