Lot Essay
See Thérèse Burollet, Musée Cognacq-Jay (1983), pp. 210/211, no. 105 for a coffee-can and saucer with similar ground colour.
1787, BLUE INTERLACED L MARKS ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS KK, UNINDENTIFIED PAINTER'S SCRIPT D, INCISED 44 TO CAN AND 46 TO SAUCER
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A Sèvres pale-yellow ground coffee-can and saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe)
1787, blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters KK, unindentified painter's script D, incised 44 to can and 46 to saucer
Painted in the style of Henri Salembier with hanging baskets of flowers within blue oval foliage cartouches divided by puce ribbon suspending garlands of flowers between narrow blue bands, the borders with meandering berried foliage and gilt dentil rims
1787, blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters KK, unindentified painter's script D, incised 44 to can and 46 to saucer
Painted in the style of Henri Salembier with hanging baskets of flowers within blue oval foliage cartouches divided by puce ribbon suspending garlands of flowers between narrow blue bands, the borders with meandering berried foliage and gilt dentil rims