CIRCA 1755, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B, PAINTER'S MARK FOR FRANCOIS BINET, INCISED D. AND 4 MARKS

By 1752 this form was produced in four sizes of which the present jug is the second size. Between 1752 and 1760 about 29 examples were produced costing between 48 livres for a jug with flowers to 168 livres for an example with a blue-ground and gilding. For a full discussion of this form see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. II, pp. 695-6.
See the similar example in the Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession number 65.1871) and another in the Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, illustrated by Marcelle Brunet et Tamara Préaud, Sèvres Des orignes à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 148, no. 74.

François Binet was a painter of flowers active at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1750 to 1775.