A Sevres porcelain part dinner service 1767-70

each piece painted with groups and sprigs of flowers within a blue and gilt ribbon border, comprising;



two ice pails, liners and covers



a glass cooler (seau crenelé)



seven juice pots and covers



four square dishes



a sugar bowl, cover and fixed stand (sucrier de M. le Premier)



four shell shaped dishes



two lotus-moulded dishes (compotier gaufré)



a tray (plateau lozange)



two small shaped oval dishes



four larger shaped oval dishes



and thirty-seven basket-moulded plates (assiettes ozier)

ice pails: date letter o, painter's mark Bouillat and date letter q, painter's mark indistinct, one liner cracked and riveted glass cooler: date letter q, painter's mark for Noël juice pots: two with date letter o, five with painter's mark for Micaud, one also with mark for DeVille (?); one flower finial repaired, other finials with minor losses square dishes: date letter p, painter's marks for Prisette or Levé sugar bowl: date letter q, painter's mark for Binet shell dishes: date letter q, painter's marks for Binet and Weydinger père; one in half and riveted,a nd with rim chip lotus-moulded dishes: date letters o, painter's marks for Binet; one with 2cm. rim hair crack tray: date letter p, painter's mark for Weydinger père small oval dishes: date letter q unattributed painter's mark Du. shaped oval dishes: date letter q and painter's marks for Bulidon, le Vavasseur and Raux; one dish with date letter H and pasinter's mark for Becquet plates: six with date letter p and painter's marks for Levé, Durand, Bouillet, Raux, Prisette and LeBel. Twenty-six with date letter q and painter's marks for Tandart, Niquet, Bouillat, LeBel, le Vavasseur, Raux, Prisette, Levé, Bienfait and the unattributed 'eye' mark. Five with no date letter and painter's mark for Laroche; five with rim chips, three with footrim chips, two riveted, three discoloured
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