A SÈVRES-PATTERN GREEN-GROUND 'JEWELLED' CYLINDRICAL COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER, the cup painted with a woman and child in an interior, she knitting and the child pulling a toy lamb on a truck, within a gilt surround enriched with red 'jewels', the ground richly gilt with arabesques enriched with white, turquoise and red 'jewels', the saucer painted with a central cluster of flowers on a white ground within a similar 'jewelled' surround and border (minute wear to gilding), imitation blue interlaced L marks and date codes, circa 1880

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A SÈVRES-PATTERN GREEN-GROUND 'JEWELLED' CYLINDRICAL COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER, the cup painted with a woman and child in an interior, she knitting and the child pulling a toy lamb on a truck, within a gilt surround enriched with red 'jewels', the ground richly gilt with arabesques enriched with white, turquoise and red 'jewels', the saucer painted with a central cluster of flowers on a white ground within a similar 'jewelled' surround and border (minute wear to gilding), imitation blue interlaced L marks and date codes, circa 1880

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