1. For a discussion of French porcelain in America during the period, see Susan Gray Detweiler, “French Porcelain on Federal Tables,” American Ceramic Circle Journal 3 (1978): 87–110; and Susan Gray Detweiler, George Washington’s Chinaware (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982). 2. Quoted in Detweiler, “French Porcelain on Federal Tables,” p. 101 3. Quoted in Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, “Survival of the Fittest: The Lloyd Family’s Furniture Legacy,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2002), p. 24. The plateau and a number of these figures are still in the family’s possession. 4. These two figure groups, first introduced at the Sèvres factory in 1780, were intended as pendants. The earliest recorded sale of the groups that year was to King Louis XVI. Their design is attributed to the sculptor Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) by Émile Bourgeois and Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres: recueil de modèles de la manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: P. Lafitte, 1914). Boizot was the director of sculpture at Sèvres from 1773 to 1800, and figures introduced during that period traditionally have been attributed to him. However, the classicizing style established at the factory by Boizot was copied by other sculptors working at the factory under Boizot, among them Josse-François-Joseph Le Riche (act. 1757–1801). 5. Figures of both Diana and Venus were sold by the factory in 1795 for five hundred livres each. 6. The factory of Dihl and Guérhard, located from 1789 to 1828 on rue de Temple, Paris, produced figures in biscuit porcelain and counted Benjamin Franklin and George Washington among its customers.