Presented on behalf of Louis XV by Louis-Marie-Gabriel-César, baron de Choiseul d’Esquilly, French Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sardinia to Giuseppe Vincenzo, Count Lascaris, Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for Sardinia, 25 March 1771, on the occasion of the marriage of Louis XV's grandson Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, Comte de Provence (later Louis XVIII) to Marie-Josephine-Louise de Savoie, eldest surviving daughter of the King of Sardinia. Much of the service remains in the collection at the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, 2015, Little Berkhamsted, Vol. II, pp, 459-461 (71-3).

Four plates from this service sold Christie's New York, 21 October 2014, lot 198. Another sold The Judith Howard Collection, Wooley and Wallis, 04 February 2020, lot 34.