A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN PINK AND MINT-GREEN CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1777, PUCE CROWNED INTERLACED L'S MARKS, THE MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Z TO THE CUP, PAINTER'S MARK FOR LOUIS ANTOINE LE GRAND FILS, INCISED SC
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A SEVRES (HARD PASTE) PORCELAIN PINK AND MINT-GREEN CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 3EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1777, PUCE CROWNED INTERLACED L'S MARKS, THE MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Z TO THE CUP, PAINTER'S MARK FOR LOUIS ANTOINE LE GRAND FILS, INCISED SC
In the Chinoiserie taste, painted and enriched in gilt with figures at various leisure pursuits, including fishing, riding a see-saw and hunting a bird, the rim with a gilt filet entwined with a pink ribbon on the mint-green ground
4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) diameter, the saucer
Louis-Antoine Le Grand fils is recorded as a gilder and painter of chinoiseries, figures, birds, flowers and patterns at the manufactory from 1776-1817.
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