A PAIR OF SÈVRES CUPS AND COVERS (pot à jus), probably from the Chatelet service, painted with loose bouquets within kidney-shaped panels on a bleu fallot ground enriched with gilt dots and reserved with puce oeil-de-pedrix enclosed by gilt bands, the covers with yellow carnation finials (one with minute chip to footrim, chip to top rim and with crack to base of handle, very minor rubbing to gilding), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters o for 1767, unidentified painter's mark ca one indistinct, one with incised Jb

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A PAIR OF SÈVRES CUPS AND COVERS (pot à jus), probably from the Chatelet service, painted with loose bouquets within kidney-shaped panels on a bleu fallot ground enriched with gilt dots and reserved with puce oeil-de-pedrix enclosed by gilt bands, the covers with yellow carnation finials (one with minute chip to footrim, chip to top rim and with crack to base of handle, very minor rubbing to gilding), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letters o for 1767, unidentified painter's mark ca one indistinct, one with incised Jb
7.5cm. high (2)

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Perhaps from the service acquired by the Comte du Chatelet on 31 December 1767, this service among other pieces included 24 pots à jus at 27 livres each, four pots à jus are at Firle House, West Sussex, other pieces from this service are in the Forsythe Wicks Collection, see the Catalogue, Jeffrey Munger et al., op. cit., pp. 191-3, nos. 137-40. This service is often confused with the Starhemberg service made in 1766

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