A SÈVRES (HARD PASTE) COMPOSITE PART TEA-SERVICE, comprising a cylindrical teapot and cover with faceted curved spout and loop handle painted with a band of arabesque scrolls, flowers, birds and foliage with classical portrait medallions on a gold ground above a band of scrolling foliage and flowerheads between pink borders with purple husks (spout chipped), 11cm. high; a oviform sugar-bowl and a cover similar (finial repaired, minor rubbing to gilding), 14cm. high overall; and an oviform milk-jug with fluted anthemion and medallion handle similar, 14.5cm. high, all with crowned interlaced Ls enclosing hh for 1785, painter's interlaced palm branches for Sisson and LF in gold probably for la France, the sugar-bowl incised Dc, the milk-jug incised script R