Buffon’s a Tournai up for the books

Four lots from a service once owned by the Duke of Orléans were among the more unusual offerings among the stash of 18th century Tournai porcelain presented by Beaussant-Lefèvre at Drouot on March 7.

The pieces (milk cup, eggcup and three other cups) may have been intended as an early-morning lesson…

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