A Sèvres socketed cup and saucer circa 1765-70

gobelet et soucoupe enfoncé of the first size, decorated with a turquoise pointillé ground reserved with garden landscapes, probably by Vielliard, including a wheelbarrow, a basket of eggs, a milk churn, a structure for keeping dairy products cool, and baskets of fruits and vegetables

Purchased from H.E.Backer in 1944 for £14, formerly Hill Collection.

There is a very little minor rubbing to the gilded rims, this is most noticeable on the outer and inner gilded rims of the saucer. Under the rim of the saucer there are a few losses to the gilded dents de loup.
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For a small tray with a similar scene with gardening implements at Waddesdon Manor, see Svend Eriksen, Sèvres Porcelain, 1968, pp. 204-5, no. 74, and for a cup and saucer see Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 1988, Vol. II, pp. 548-54, C369.  Both items bear the mark of the painter André-Vincent Vielliard and it is probable this cup and saucer were also painted by him.