At the beginning of the 1750s, painters and gilders at the Vincennes-Sèvres Manufactory supplemented the new repertoire of forms created at the instigation of Jean-Claude Duplessis with coloured backgrounds and cartouches of extremely-varied motifs of flowers, landscapes and chinoiserie. Ornamental patterns were developed for the grounds, which combined the new characteristic Sèvres colours, in this case the "beau bleu", a deep dark blue, with motifs in gold, sometimes geometric (lozenges or lattices), sometimes asymmetrical, like this "gold stippling" design, the fluidity
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