BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G FOR 1759-1760, PAINTER'S MARK OF A CRESCENT FOR ARMAND L'AN, THE CUP INCISED 2, THE SAUCER INCISED 3

The combination of pink and green ground colours is found on Svres porcelain dating 1759-1761. The factory records note the sale of cups and saucers with such decoration between 1760 and mid-1761 to the dealers Bachelier, Mme Lair, Machart, Poirier and Tesnieres. A pink and green djeuner is listed as having been sold to Dulac for 528 livres in the second quarter of 1761. It is possible that this entry refers to the service to which the present cup and saucer originally belonged. See Adrian Sassoon, Vincennes and Svres Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, 1991, no. 8, pp. 39-41.

Another cup and saucer from this djeuner was acquired from The Antique Porcelain Company through Partridge Fine Arts by Lord Cholmondely in March 1949 and presented to Sir John Plumb. It remains in the present New England Collection. A third cup and saucer, the teapot and the sugar-bowl are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as a loan by R. Thornton Wilson in 1976 and a bequest in 1983. The tray, now in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, was acquired by the museum as part of the J.P. Morgan bequest in 1917. The cream-jug was also in the collection of Ren Fribourg and sold in the Sotheby sale of 1963 as lot 448.

Louis-Denis Armand, recorded at Vincennes and Svres as a painter of birds, animals, landscapes and figures, 1745-1783