This pair of plateaux Bouret are from a service purchased by Louis XVI for household use at the château de Versailles. It is included in the Sèvres Sales Registers and is listed amongst purchases made by King Louis XVI on 11 May 1783, 'Au Roy pendant le Quartier d'Avril 1783'. The 1783 delivery included fourteen 'plateaux pour les servir' (later identified as plateaux Bouret) at a cost of 30 livres each. Supplements to the service were ordered on an annual basis up until 1787 and these are associated with Louis XVI's original service order of 1783 destined for Versailles. Four 1783 plateaux Bouret (one marked m.b.) were sold at Christie's, London on 30 March 1987, lot 29. Two plateaux Bouret are in the Musée national du château de Versailles et de Trianon, see David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the Eighteenth Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2015, Vol. III, p. 681.

Marie-Marguerite-Gabrielle, Mme Le Bel, was a painter of flowers and patterns at Sèvres from 1774 to 1790 and from 1804 to 1805.