This sugar bowl, signed by Dodin in 1777, has a deep blue background and gilt-edged borders, filled with gallant, bucolic scènes in the style of Boucher. It is part of a set comprising a teapot (inv. 308B) and a milk jug (inv. 308C).

Charles-Nicolas Dodin was one of the most important painter of figures of the Sèvres Manufactory in the second half of the eighteenth century. His virtuosity is evident in a number of areas and while his inspiration was not limited to French painting, Boucher was undoubtedly the painter who influenced him most and whose work he reproduced most often. Throughout his career as a painter, Dodin not only decorated vases (often in the most diverse shapes) and dinner services, but also produced paintings on plaques intended to decorate furniture, clocks and barometers.