Tea and coffee service in the 18th century were called Dejeuners and Cabarets.
They were used to serve tea and coffee in bedrooms, boudoirs, salons or outdoors.
This service was a gift from the Empress Marie-Louise and the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
It was gifted to the emperor's sister Pauline - Princess Borghese.
Heavily guilded in the Sevres' Etruscan style.
Floral still life's executed by the Dutch artist Georgius Jacobius Johannes van Os - 1811.
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